Thoracic Endoscopy Advances in Interventional Pulmonology

Michael J. Simoff MD, Daniel H. Sterman MD, Armin Ernst MD1405122048, 9781405122047, 9780470755273

Written by some of the world’s leading practitioners – and pioneers – in the field, 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 covers four key areas of practice: 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
Thoracic Endoscopy presents the only coherent guide to the full range of techniques and practice patterns, and is the essential reference for both experienced interventional pulmonologists and students beginning to practice in this rapidly-developing field.

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Table of contents :
Thoracic Endoscopy: Advances in Interventional Pulmonology……Page 5
Contents……Page 7
Contributors……Page 9
Foreword……Page 13
Preface……Page 15
Part I Advances in diagnostic bronchology……Page 17
1 Autofluorescence in the detection of lung cancer……Page 19
2 New technologies for the endobronchial assessment of the pulmonary tract……Page 37
3 Endobronchial ultrasound……Page 49
4 Advances in diagnostic bronchoscopy: virtual bronchoscopy and advanced airway imaging……Page 60
5 Medical simulation: current uses and future applications……Page 92
6 Bronchoscopy and computer technology……Page 104
Part II Advances in therapeutic bronchology……Page 135
7 Rigid bronchoscopy……Page 137
8 Fire and ice: laser bronchoscopy, electrocautery and cryotherapy……Page 150
9 Photodynamic therapy for endobronchial tumors: palliation and definitive therapy……Page 171
10 Stenting of the tracheobronchial tree……Page 183
11 Transtracheal oxygen and percutaneous tracheotomy……Page 189
12 Bronchoscopic lung volume reduction……Page 204
13 Endobronchial gene therapy……Page 214
Part III Interventional pleurology……Page 227
14 Thoracentesis, percutaneous needle biopsy of pleura, small-bore catheter drainage: does size really matter?……Page 229
15 Medical thoracoscopy……Page 240
16 Photodynamic therapy in the pleural space……Page 258
17 Intrapleural therapy: from BCG to therapeutic genes……Page 267
Part IV Case discussions……Page 285
18 Management of patients at increased risk for lung cancer……Page 287
19 Staging of bronchogenic carcinoma: an interventional pulmonary perspective……Page 295
20 Management of malignant pleural effusions……Page 314
21 Management of spontaneous pneumothorax……Page 326
22 Obstruction of the central airways: evaluation and management……Page 339
23 Management of massive hemoptysis……Page 346
24 Management of tracheobronchomalacia……Page 360
Index……Page 369