Medical management of the thoracic surgery patient. (©2010)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: [edited by] Michael I. Lewis, Robert J. McKenna Jr. ; associate editors, Jeremy A. Falk, George E. Chaux.
• Other Names: Lewis, Michael I; McKenna, Robert J, 1925-
• Contents: Imaging of the Thoracic Surgery Patient -- Nuclear Medicine Imaging in Thoracic Surgery -- Preoperative Evaluation of Thoracic Surgery Patients -- Diagnostic Bronchoscopy -- Mediastinoscopy and Mediastinotomy -- Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery -- Anesthetic Considerations in Thoracic Surgery -- Thoracic Surgical Anatomy and Procedures -- Therapeutic Bronchoscopy -- Tracheotomy -- Tracheal Stenosis -- Tracheoesophageal Fistula -- Tracheal Masses -- Congenital and Developmental Lung Malformations -- Emphysema: Lung Volume Reduction Surgery -- Thoracic Surgical Considerations in Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases of the Lung -- Massive Hemoptysis -- Role of Lung Biopsy in Diffuse Lung Disease -- Evaluation and Management of the Solitary Pulmonary Nodule -- Lung Cancer Screening -- Staging of Lung Cancer -- Pathologic Classification of Lung Malignancies and Special Pathologic Procedures -- Surgical Management of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer -- Adjuvant and Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer -- Overview of Radiation Therapy Terms and Procedures in the Management of Thoracic Malignancies -- Adjuvant and Neoadjuvant Radiation Therapy for Lung Cancer -- Radiofrequency Ablation of Lung Tumors -- Superior Vena Cava Syndrome -- Superior Sulcus Tumors -- Chest Wall Invasion in Lung Cancer -- Preoperative Assessment of High-Risk Patients for Lung Cancer Resection -- Small Cell Lung Cancer -- Other Neoplastic Lesions: Benign and Malignant -- Resection for Pulmonary Metastases -- Patient Evaluation and Selection -- Lung Transplant Donor Selection and Management -- Surgical Techniques and Options -- Lung Transplantation: Perioperative Management and Early Complications -- Intermediate and Late Complications of Lung Transplantation -- Transplant Pharmacology -- Transplant Immunology -- Masses of the Anterior Mediastinum -- Masses of the Middle Mediastinum -- Posterior Mediastinal Masses -- Other Mediastinal Disorders: Fibrosing Mediastinitis, Acute, Mediastinitis, and Mediastinal Hemorrhage -- Tube Thoracostomy -- Pleural Effusions and Complications -- Pleural Masses -- Pneumothorax and Bronchopleural Fistula -- Chest Wall -- Diaphragm Disorders: Paralysis, Hernia, Eventration -- Clinical Features and Evaluation of Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension -- Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension and Pulmonary Thromboendarterectomy -- Initial Trauma Management -- Management of Thoracic Trauma -- Carcinoma of the Esophagus -- Benign Esophageal Disease -- Management of Esophageal Perforation.
• Publisher Details: Philadelphia, PA : Saunders/Elsevier
• Publication Date: 2010
• Copyright Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (xix, 540 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 617.5/4; Chest -- Surgery; Chest -- Diseases -- Diagnosis; Therapeutics, Surgical; Thoracic Diseases -- surgery; Thoracic Surgery -- methods; Patient Care -- methods; Perioperative Care -- methods; Thoracic Surgical Procedures -- methods; Thorax -- Chirurgie; Thorax -- Maladies -- Diagnostic; Thérapeutique chirurgicale; MEDICAL -- Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine; MEDICAL -- Surgery -- Thoracic; Maladies du thorax -- chirurgie; Chirurgie thoracique (spécialité); Soins aux patients; Soins périopératoires; Procédures chirurgicales thoraciques; Chest -- Diseases -- Diagnosis; Chest -- Surgery; Therapeutics, Surgical; Thorax -- Chirurgie; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781437711073; 1437711073
• Related ISBNs: 9781416039938; 1416039937
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.