| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Pleural diseases/ Richard W. Light. |
| Author: |
Light, Richard W. |
| Published: |
Philadelphia :Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, : c2013., |
| Description: |
1 online resource (xiii, 504 p.) :ill. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Anatomy of the pleura -- Physiology of the pleural space -- Physiological effects of pneumothorax and pleural effusion -- Animal models in pleural investigation -- Cytokines and the pleura -- Radiographic examinations -- Clinical manifestations and useful tests -- Approach to the patient -- Transudative pleural effusions -- Pleural effusions related to metastatic malignancies -- Primary tumors of the pleura -- Parapneumonic effusions and empyema -- Tuberculous pleural effusions -- Pleural effusion secondary to fungal infections, actinomycosis, and nocardiosis -- Pleural effusion due to parasitic infection -- Pleural effusion due to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, other viruses, mycoplasma pneumoniae, and rickettsiae -- Pleural effusion due to pulmonary embolization -- Pleural effusion secondary to diseases of the gastrointestinal tract -- Pleural effusion secondary to diseases of the heart -- Pleural disease in obstetrics and gynecology -- Pleural disease due to collagen vascular diseases -- Pleural effusion due to drug reactions -- Pleural effusion due to miscellaneous diseases -- Pneumothorax -- Hemothorax -- Chylothorax and pseudochylothorax -- Other pleural diseases -- Thoracentesis (diagnostic and therapeutic) and pleural biopsy -- Chest tubes -- Thoracoscopy. |
| Subject: |
Pleura - Diseases. - |
| Online resource: |
http://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&NEWS=n&CSC=Y&PAGE=booktext&D=books&AN=01735128$&XPATH=/PG(0) |