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…
Bacterial Infections of the Lungs and Bronchial Compressive Disorders
Bacterial Infections of the Lungs and Bronchial Compressive Disorders Joseph I. Miller Jr. Suppurative diseases of the lung and certain bronchial compressive disorders formed the basis for the development of…
Lung Volume Reduction
Lung Volume Reduction Anastasios Polimenakis Keith S. Naunheim History It was Otto Brantigan6 in the 1950s who first had the idea that localized lung resection might benefit patients with diffuse…
Bullous and Bleb Diseases of the Lung
Bullous and Bleb Diseases of the Lung Talat Chughtai Emilie Perron Mathieu Simon Jean Deslauriers Bullae were defined at the 1959 Ciba Symposium as emphysematous spaces larger than 1 cm…
Chronic Pulmonary Emboli
Chronic Pulmonary Emboli Patricia A. Thistlethwaite Michael Madani Stuart W. Jamieson Over the past decade, considerable progress has been made in understanding the etiology, prevalence, natural history, and therapeutic approaches…
Congenital Vascular Lesions of the Lungs
Congenital Vascular Lesions of the Lungs Michael J. Liptay Edward Hong The incidence of congenital vascular malformations of the lung is low despite the complex embryologic derivation of the pulmonary…
Pulmonary Complications of Cystic Fibrosis
Pulmonary Complications of Cystic Fibrosis Kristy Phillips David R. Jones Christine L. Lau Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an autosomal recessive inherited disease caused by mutations in a single gene that…
