Clinical Trial Design
Clinical Trial Design Mary W. Redman John J. Crowley For thoracic surgery as well as for any other discipline of medicine, the best path toward increased knowledge and better outcomes…
Evidence-Based Thoracic Surgery
Evidence-Based Thoracic Surgery Jemi Olak Paul J. Karanicolas “Evidence-based medicine” (EBM) represents a shift in medical paradigms. Traditional approaches to clinical decision making put a relatively high value on intuition,…
Diffuse Lung Disease
Diffuse Lung Disease Francis C. Nichols Sebastian Defranchi Diffuse parenchymal lung disease (DPLD) comprises a wide range of heterogenous lung disorders characterized by parenchymal lung injury with varying degrees of…
Solitary Pulmonary Nodule
Solitary Pulmonary Nodule Wilson M. Clements John F. DeRosimo Carolyn E. Reed Lung disease when manifested as a solitary lesion on imaging is usually asymptomatic and is frequently due to…
Pulmonary Paragonimiasis and Its Surgical Complications
Pulmonary Paragonimiasis and Its Surgical Complications Hiroshi Mukae Fukumi Nakamura-Uchiyama Yufigumi Nawa Paragonimiasis is a subacute to chronic inflammatory disease of the lung caused by lung flukes of the genus…
Hydatid Disease of the Lung
Hydatid Disease of the Lung Nickolaos N. Harlaftis Homeros A. Aletras Panagiotis N. Symbas Hydatid disease has been known since ancient times. Hippocrates referred to it and Rudolphi40 first used…
Pleuropulmonary Amebiasis
Pleuropulmonary Amebiasis Mohan Verghese Rajeev Kapoor Forrest C. Eggleston Pleuropulmonary amebiasis is almost invariably the result of perforation of an amebic liver abscess through the diaphragm. It accounts for 10%…
Mycotic and Actinomycetic Infections of the Lung
Mycotic and Actinomycetic Infections of the Lung Shari L. Meyerson David A. Harpole Jr. Fungal infections of the lungs have traditionally represented a very small component of the practice of…
Surgery for the Management of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis and Nontuberculous Mycobacterial (Environmental) Infections of the Lung
Surgery for the Management of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis and Nontuberculous Mycobacterial (Environmental) Infections of the Lung Marvin Pomerantz John D. Mitchell Mycobacterial pulmonary disease includes infections with Mycobacterium tuberculosis—a virulent organism…
Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases of the Lung
Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases of the Lung Gregory Campbell Jeffrey Glassroth The mycobacteria are a diverse group of aerobic acid-fast bacilli distributed worldwide in the environment and in…
