clinical problems and methodologies, and strategies for solving them using
Table of Contents
Part I Advances in Diagnostic Bronchology. 1 Autofluorescence in the Detection of Lung Cancer.
(Michael J. Simoff).
2 New Technologies for the Endobronchial Assessment of the Pulmonary Tract.
(Mark E. Brezinski).
3 Endobronchial Ultrasound.
(Felix J.F. Herth & Heinrich D. Becker).
4 Advances in Diagnostic Bronchoscopy: Virtual Bronchoscopy and Advanced Airway Imaging.
(Rex C. Yung & Leo Patrick Lawler).
5 Medical Simulation: Current uses and Future Applications. (Joseph L. Tasto & Jonathan P. Balcombe).
6 Bronchoscopy and Computer Technology.
(Heinrich D. Becker).
Part II Advances in Therapeutic Bronchology.
7 Rigid Bronchoscopy.
(Jed A. Gorden & Douglas E.Wood).
8 Fire and Ice: Laser Bronchoscopy, Electrocautery and Cryotherapy.
(Michael A. Jantz & Gerard A. Silvestri).
9 Photodynamic Therapy for Endobronchial Tumors: Palliation and Definitive Therapy.
(David Ost).
10 Stenting of the Tracheobronchial Tree.
(Armin Ernst).
11 Transtracheal Oxygen and Percutaneous Tracheotomy.
(David Feller-Kopman).
12 Bronchoscopic Lung Volume Reduction.
(Edward P. Ingenito & LarryW. Tsai).
13 Endobronchial Gene Therapy.
(Robert J. Kruklitis & Daniel H. Sterman).
Part III Interventional Pleurology.
14 Thoracentesis, Percutaneous Needle Biopsy of Pleura, Small-bore Catheter Drainage: Does Size Really Matter?.
(Luis Miguel Seijo).
15 Medical Thoracoscopy.
(Sjaak A. Burgers).
16 Photodynamic Therapy in the Pleural Space.
(Paul Baas).
17 Intrapleural Therapy: from BCG to Therapeutic Genes.
(Andrew R. Haas & Daniel H. Sterman).
Part IV Case Discussions.
18 Management of Patients at Increased Risk for Lung Cancer.
(Boyd T. Hehn & Michael J. Simoff).
19 Staging of Bronchogenic Carcinoma: an Interventional Pulmonary Perspective.
(J. Francis Turner, Jr & Arthur D. del Rosario).
20 Management of Malignant Pleural effusions.
(Michael S. Machuzak, Ali I. Musani & Daniel H. Sterman).
21 Management of Spontaneous Pneumothorax.
(Michael H. Baumann).
22 Obstruction of the Central Airways: Evaluation and Management. (William Lunn).
23 Management of Massive Hemoptysis. (John Conforti).
24 Management of Tracheobronchomalacia.
(Kelly A. Carden & Armin Ernst).
Index.
