The Lymphatic System in Thoracic Oncology, An Issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics

The Lymphatic System in Thoracic Oncology, An Issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics
Author: Federico Venuta
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2012-05-28
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1455744425

The aim of this issue is to provide the thoracic surgeon with information about the staging and treatment of cancer to the mediastinal lymph nodes. The issue includes articles on the anatomy and physiology of the lymph nodes, imaging of the lymph nodes, and various techniques for diagnosing and dissecting the lymph nodes, including video-assisted mediastinoscopic lymphadenectomy and transcervical extended mediastinal lymphadenectomy.

Patient Perspectives in Pulmonary Surgery, An Issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics

Patient Perspectives in Pulmonary Surgery, An Issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics
Author: Alessandro Brunelli
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2012-11-28
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1455747157

The articles in this issue address psychosocial and quality of life concerns for patients who have undergone thoracic surgery. Topics include changes in quality of life after pulmonary resection; impact of minimally invasive thoracic surgery on quality of life; psychosocial aspects of lung transplantation; and physical, cognitive and emotional dysfunctions resulting from intensive care.

Current Management Guidelines in Thoracic Surgery, An Issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics

Current Management Guidelines in Thoracic Surgery, An Issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics
Author: M. Blair Marshall
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2012-02-28
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1455743194

This issue highlights management issues surrounding specific subjects within the clinical practice of thoracic surgery. The articles represent areas of thoracic surgery where there may be controversy, lack of consensus, or evolution. Each author summarizes the available literature with the addition of his or her own personal expertise.

Lung Cancer, Part I: Screening, Diagnosis, and Staging, An Issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics

Lung Cancer, Part I: Screening, Diagnosis, and Staging, An Issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics
Author: Jean Deslauriers
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2013-05-28
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1455773670

This issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics covers the screening for and diagnosis and staging of lung cancer. Expert authors review the most current information available about fluorescence and navigational bronchoscopy, integrated PET/CT for mediastinal nodal staging, contraindications to pulmonary resection, approach to patients with multiple lung nodules, and more. Keep up-to-the-minute with the latest developments in this important aspect of thoracic surgery practice.

Postoperative Care in Thoracic Surgery

Postoperative Care in Thoracic Surgery
Author: Mert Şentürk
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-03-17
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9783319199078

This book offers a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of optimal postoperative care in patients who have undergone thoracic surgery and discusses challenging issues that are of interest not only in the context of thoracic surgery but also more generally within the fields of anesthesia, intensive care, and pain medicine. The coverage ranges, for example, from use of non-invasive ventilation, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, and new monitoring devices to fluid management, pain control, and treatment of arrhythmias. A key feature of the book is the exceptionally attractive list of authors, who represent the most authoritative experts on the topics that they address. The approach is appropriately multidisciplinary, acknowledging that in many centers thoracic anesthetists are responsible for care during the postoperative period. This book is exceptional in being devoted solely to postoperative care in thoracic surgery, even though the difficulties involved in thoracic operations sometimes exceed those of cardiac surgery, especially in the postoperative period.

Diffuse Cystic Lung Diseases

Diffuse Cystic Lung Diseases
Author: Nishant Gupta
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2021-01-28
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3030633659

This book is a comprehensive reference on diffuse cystic lung diseases (DCLDs). DCLDs are a group of pathophysiologically heterogenous processes that are characterized by the presence of multiple spherical or irregularly shaped, thin-walled, air-filled spaces within the pulmonary parenchyma. In recent years, tremendous advancements have been made in these diseases leading to improved understanding of the underlying pathophysiology, and improved outcomes with targeted therapies. The authors, who are leading experts in the field, delineate DCLDs as a separate category distinct from other interstitial lung diseases, and have created this textbook specifically dedicated to this disease group. This book begins with a chapter introducing the definition and classification of DCLDs. Subsequent chapters address the pathogenic mechanisms underlying pulmonary cyst formation and provide a detailed overview of the radiological and pathological features of DCLDs. The common as well as uncommon causes of DCLDs are comprehensively reviewed in individual chapters, as are the varied clinical presentations and extrapulmonary manifestations, and approaches to management and treatment. The book culminates in a final chapter that presents a practical algorithmic approach to diagnosis that progresses from least invasive to most invasive approaches. This textbook provides a one-stop, comprehensive and integrated, clinical, radiologic, and pathologic overview of DCLDs that will be as useful to the practicing clinician as it is to the clinical investigator.

Complex Pleuropulmonary Infections

Complex Pleuropulmonary Infections
Author: Gernot Rohde
Publisher: European Respiratory Society
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2013
Genre: Respiratory infections
ISBN: 1849840377

Pleuropulmonary infections are among the major causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. This issue of the European Respiratory Monograph considers pleuropulmonary infections from both medical and surgical angles.

Emergency Radiology COFFEE Case Book

Emergency Radiology COFFEE Case Book
Author: Bharti Khurana
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 683
Release: 2016-04-07
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1107690765

This book of 85 index cases is organized by clinical presentations that simulate real-life radiology practice in the emergency department. Companion cases spanning the differential diagnoses and spectrum of disease provide hundreds more examples for a fast, focused, effective education we like to call COFFEE (Case-Oriented Fast Focused Effective Education).