Thoracic Key

Figure 20.1A CXR of a patient 2 weeks after pneumonectomy ventilated via a tracheostomy. Figure 20.1B The same patient 12 hours later after developing a BPF; the fluid level in…

Pulmonary metastatic diseaseKaposi’s sarcomaGoodpasture’s syndromeWegner’s granulomatosisMicroscopic polyarteritisBehcet’s diseaseSystemic lupus erythematosusIdiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosisInfectionCoagulopathyBacterial pneumoniaTBMycetomaRespiratory viral infectionsLung abscessParasitic diseaseUse of anticoagulants or thrombolytic agentsVon Willebrand’s diseaseHaemophiliaThrombocytopeniaDisseminated intravascular coagulationAirways diseaseMiscellaneousBronchiectasisBronchitisCystic fibrosisTraumaForeign bodyIatrogenicPulmonary sequestrationEndometriosis/catamenialLymphangioleiomyomatosisCryptogenic…

Figure 24.1 Risk-adjusted survival for adenocarcinoma according to the 7th edition of the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC)/UICC staging system. Figure 24.2 Risk-adjusted survival for squamous cell carcinoma according…

Figure 16.1 The da Vinci Surgical System set-up. The instruments are cable driven with 7 degrees of freedom and 360 degrees of rotation of the tip of the instruments (Figure…

>20–40 mm>40 mm0–30 mm>30 mm31185431174.1%66.6%100%72.1%81.8%0.4220.378Makris D et al., 2007 [31]ENB0–10 mm>10–20 mm>20–30 mm>30 mm41671375%43.7%71.4%76.9%Not reportedLamprecht B et al., 2012 [32]Combined FDG-PET, ENB, and ROSE0–20 mm>20 mm456775.6%89.6%0.066Pearlstein DP et al., 2012[33]ENB…