Main description:

This book covers neoplastic and non-neoplastic pulmonary diseases, supplying essential information for the most common pulmonary diseases as well as many of the rarer ones. Organized around disease entities and presented in outline form, this book provides easy access to the essential facts and is illustrated with plentiful figures. The essential pathology, radiology and bronchoscopic technologies are discussed, as well as the tools needed to facilitate the most specific diagnoses and thus the most appropriate therapies. Each chapter also provides a list of suggested readings to guide further study.
Written for a broad audience of clinicians who encounter these diseases in their everyday practice, this book serves specialists in pulmonary medicine and internal medicine, as well as general surgical pathologists who encounter these diseases as pulmonary specimens and who use this information for definitive evaluation and diagnoses of these entities, especially in small biopsies and cytopathology specimens.
Pulmonary Disease: Pathology, Radiology, Bronchoscopy brings together the essential clinical, radiologic and pathologic insights for the major diseases of the lung, emphasizing the diagnostic criteria needed to ensure accurate diagnoses from small specimens.

Contents:

Preface.- Introduction to Multi-Disciplinary Techniques,- Benign Tumors,- Salivary Gland-Like Tumors,- Common Non-Small Cell Carcinomas,- Small Cell Carcinoma and Large Cell Neuroendocrine Carcinoma,- Carcinoid Tumors and Diffuse Idiopathic Neuroendocrine Cell Hyperplasia,- Sarcomatoid Carcinomas,- Mesenchymal Tumors of the Lung,- Lymphoproliferative Diseases,- Tumors of the Pleura,- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases,- Small Airway Diseases,- Acute Lung Injury,- Common Interstitial Pneumonias,- Other Interstitial Lung Diseases,- Pneumoconioses,- Vasculitis,- Hypertensive Vascular Diseases,- Bacterial Infections,- Mycobacterial Infections,- Viral Infections,- Common Fungal Infections,- Parasitic Infections,- Lung Involvement by Systemic Diseases.