This series aims to provide an illustrated basic text suitable for senior medical students, junior hospital doctors and allied professionals. This work in the form of a pocket guide, is intended to demonstrate to students and others, what tests can be done and how they should be interpreted in order to aid diagnosis and management of patients. Clinical features and diagnostic tests are discussed and the appendix covers the principles of chest X-ray interpretation.
This series aims to provide an illustrated basic text suitable for senior medical students, junior hospital doctors and allied professionals. This work in the form of a pocket guide, is intended to demonstrate to students and others, what tests can be done and how they should be interpreted in order to aid diagnosis and management of patients. Clinical features and diagnostic tests are discussed and the appendix covers the principles of chest X-ray interpretation.
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
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107 colour illustrations, 88 half-tones
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978-0-443-03853-2 (9780443038532)
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Consultant Radiologist, Luton and Dunstable Hospital, Luton
Part 1: Asthma. Part 2 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: management of cor pulmonale; sleep apnoea. Part 3 Bronchiectasis. Part 4 Fibrosing lung disease: granulomatous - extrinsic allergic alveolitis, sarcoidosis, tuberculosis; non-granulomatous - cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis, connective tissue disorders, occupational lung fibrosis. Part 5 Pulmonary eosinophilia: bronchopulmonary aspergillosis; connective tissue disorders; Loeffler's syndrome. Part 6 Infections of the respiratory tract: bacterial; viral pneumonia; fungal; atypical pneumonia. Part 7 Tuberculosis. Part 8 Bronchial neoplasm: including metastatic and non-metastatic complications. Part 9 Occupational lung disease. Part 10 Drug toxicity and the lung. Part 11 Diseases of the pleura and chest wall: pleural diseases - pneumothorax, pleural malignancy; diseases of the chest wall. Part 12 Pulmonary vascular disease: primary pulmonary hypertension; secondary pulmonary hypertension - cor pulmonale, pulmonary embolic disease; pulmonary haemosiderosis; Goodpasture's syndrome; adult respiratory distress syndrome. Appendix 1: mediastinal lesions. Appendix 2 Respiratory function tests: airway function; lung volumes; gas transfer; compliance. Appendix 3: normal lung.
