Table of Contents

Section A: Manual
1. Introduction
2. Differences between Medical Thoracoscopy/Pleuroscopy and Surgical Thoracoscopy/Video-assisted Thoracic Surgery
3. Indications for and Results of Medical Thoracoscopy/Pleuroscopy
4. Medical Thoracoscopy/Pleuroscopy in Children
5. Medical Thoracoscopy/Pleuroscopy in Animals
6. Medical Thoracoscopy/Pleuroscopy in Research
7. Clinical Prerequisites for Medical Thoracoscopy/Pleuroscopy
8. Contraindications
9. Complications and Their Prevention
10. Knowledge and Skills Required
11. Techniques of Medical Thoracoscopy/Pleuroscopy
12. Documentation
13. Teaching Methods
Section B: Atlas
14. Malignant Pleural Effusions due to Lung Cancer
15. Pleural Effusions due to Diffuse Malignant Mesothelioma and Asbestos-related Pleural Diseases
16. Malignant Pleural Effusions Secondary to Metastatic Neoplasms
17. Pleural Effusions due to Malignant Lymphoma/Myeloproliferative Neoplasm
18. Tuberculous Pleural Effusions
19. Pleural Effusions of Other Origin
20. Pneumothorax
21. Diffuse Lung Diseases
22. Other Indications
References

About the Author

Associate Professor, Division of Respiratory and Critical Care, National University Hospital, Singapore

Reviews

This very complete book is highly recommended to every fellow or pulmonologist who wants to learn thoracoscopy, and to every thoracoscopist who wants to keep up with recent developments and new techniques in the exciting field of diagnosis and treatment of pleural diseases.--Breathe