Pleural Disease

Conceived as an everyday go-to resource, this new edition is a timely update of a classic resource for clinicians working in the field. Pulmonologists, radiologists, and critical care physicians will find: - direct, concise advice on the diagnosis and management of parapneumonic and surgical pleural infections from recognized international experts - comprehensive information on the current molecular and diagnostic approaches, clinical manifestations, and treatment methodologies - interventional applications, including pleural thoracentesis and closed biopsy, chest tube insertion, pleural lavage, medical thoracoscopy, and VATS - biomarkers and proteomics - critical assessment of the various diagnostic tests and the importance of clinical evaluation in the differential diagnosis of a pleural effusion - review of new surgical and non-surgical techniques used to identify and diagnose pleural diseases Dr Demosthenes Bouros (Democritus University, Alexandroupolis, Greece)