Textbook of Pleural Diseases Book

Part One - Basic Science
1. Embryology and gross structure
Ming-Jen Peng and Nai-San Wang
2. Cells in the pleural cavity
Marie-Claude Jaurand, Yannick Pilatte and Jocelyne Fleury-Feith
3. Liquid and protein exchange
Payam Nahid and V. Courtney Broaddus
4. Physiological effects of pleural air or fluid
Richard W. Light
5. Pleural inflammation
Veena B. Antony
6. Cytokines in pleural diseases
Y. C. Gary Lee and Kirk B. Lane
7. Pleural infection
Veena B. Antony
8. Pleural fibrosis
Steven Idell
9. Pleural reaction to mineral dusts
Jaume Ferrer, Juan Montes Castillo and Jose Garcia Valero
10. Genetics of malignant mesothelioma
Joseph R. Testa and Suresh C. Jhanwar
11. Pharmacokinetics
Blair Capitano and Charles H Nightingale
12. Experimental models in pleural disease
Y. C. Gary Lee
13. Experimental models of mesothelioma
Delia Nelson, Richard Lake and Bruce Robinson
Part Two - Clinical Science
14. Approach to patients with pleural diseases
Steven A. Sahn
15. Pleural fluid analysis
Steven A. Sahn and John E. Heffner
16. Diagnostic radiology
C. L. Davies and F. V. Gleeson
17. Interventional radiology
Edith M. Marom, Jeremy J. Erasmus and Edward F. Patz, Jr
18. Pleural histology
Philip T. Cagle
19. Pleural cytology, tumor markers and immunohistochemistry
Mark R. Wick
20. Effusions from cardiac diseases
Gary T. Kinasewitz and Alain A. Eid
21. Effusions from vascular causes
Richard W. Light
22. Effusions from malignancy
Francisco Rodriguez-Panadero
23. Effusions from Parapneumonic infection and empyema
Nick A. Maskell and Robert J. O. Davies
24. Effusions from tuberculosis
Esteban Perez Rodriguez, David Jimenez Castro and Richard W. Light
25. Effusions from atypical infections
Lisete Ribiero Teixeria and Francisco S. Vargas
26. Effusions in immunocompromised hosts
Heinrich Hamm
27. Effusions from lymphatic disruptions
Gunnar Hillerdal
28. Effusions from collagen vascular disease
Joseph P. Lynch, Steven A. Sahn and Jose Joseph
29. Effusions due to drugs
Ioannis T. Kalomenidis
30. Effusions after surgery
R. Michael Rodriguez
31. Hepatic hydrothorax
Xavier Xiol
32. Effusions due to gastrointestinal disease
Charles Strange
33. Effusions due to obstetrical and gynaecological conditions
Richard W. Light
34. Benign Asbestos pleural diseases
A. William Musk and Nick. H. de Klerk
35. Malignant mesothelioma
Philippe Astoul
36. Spontaneous pneumothorax
Andrew C. Miller
37. Non-spontaneous pneumothorax
Michael H. Baumann
38. Pediatric pleural diseases
Elizabeth A. Perkett
39. Drainage and biopsy techniques
Henri Colt
40. Medical thoracoscopy
Robert Loddenkemper
41. Surgery of the Pleural Cavity
David A. Waller, John G. Edwards and Antonio E. Martin-Ucar
42. Gene therapy
Steven M. Albelda and Daniel H. Sterman
43. Future Directions
Y. C. Gary Lee and Richard W. Light