Thoracic Endoscopy is the first up-to-the-minute, expert reference for clinicians with a solid foundation in diagnostic bronchoscopy and chest medicine needing to extend their clinical expertise in response to two decades of rapid development.

Thoracic Endoscopy cover four key areas:

• advanced diagnostic bronchoscopy
• the latest techniques for interventional bronchoscopy — including the traditional rigid bronchoscopy techniques, ablative instruments and stents — and a discussion of endobronchial lung reduction and gene therapy
• a window to the pleura, covering the field of pleuroscopy and the advances in diagnosis and treatment
• clinical problems and methodologies, and strategies for solving them using interventional techniques

Contents

Advances in Diagnostic Bronchology

1. Autofluorescence in the Detection of Lung Cancer
2. New Technologies for the Endobronchial Assessment of the Pulmonary Tract
3. Endobronchial Ultrasound
4. Advances in Diagnostic Bronchoscopy: Virtual Bronchoscopy and Advanced Airway Imaging
5. Medical Simulation: Current uses and Future Applications
6. Bronchoscopy and Computer Technology

Advances in Therapeutic Bronchology

7. Rigid Bronchoscopy
8. Fire and Ice: Laser Bronchoscopy, Electrocautery and Cryotherapy
9. Photodynamic Therapy for Endobronchial Tumors: Palliation and Definitive Therapy
10. Stenting of the Tracheobronchial Tree
11. Transtracheal Oxygen and Percutaneous Tracheotomy
12. Bronchoscopic Lung Volume Reduction
13. Endobronchial Gene Therapy

Interventional Pleurology

14. Thoracentesis, Percutaneous Needle Biopsy of Pleura, Small-bore Catheter Drainage: Does Size Really Matter
15. Medical Thoracoscopy
16. Photodynamic Therapy in the Pleural Space
17. Intrapleural Therapy: from BCG to Therapeutic Genes

Case Discussions

18. Management of Patients at Increased Risk for Lung Cancer
19. Staging of Bronchogenic Carcinoma: an Interventional Pulmonary Perspective
20. Management of Malignant Pleural effusions
21. Management of Spontaneous Pneumothorax
22. Obstruction of the Central Airways: Evaluation and Management
23. Management of Massive Hemoptysis
24. Management of Tracheobronchomalacia

Index

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