Textbook of Pleural Diseases

By Y.C. Gary Lee

Book Overview

This international and authoritative treatise covers all aspects of pleural disease. Beginning with a comprehensive introductory section to provide guidance to, and aid understanding of, the basic mechanisms that underlie pleural diseases, the book follows with a series of clinical chapters, discussing all the common and less common pleural diseases.These chapters were written to a uniform structure covering definition, incidence and epidemiology, etiology and pathogenesis, clinical presentation, investigations, treatments, possible complications and directions for future development, Guidelines for management are included where appropriate and each chapter concludes with a summary highlighting practical patient management "tips". This book is an invaluable reference for specialist pulmonologists with an interest in pleural diseases, and for residents and other pulmonary physicians.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0340807946
• ISBN13: 9780340807941
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 3.75 lbs.