Full Description
Bronchoscopy means pictures: but to comprehend an image we have to learn to see. These excellent photographs, all taken by the author himself, not only instruct us in the art of seeing just about all there is to see in the bronchial system but also illustrate many relationships between visual appearances and the clinical situation. They go even further in correlating bronchoscopic find ings with the function of the lung. Treated in this way, the image comes alive. Anyone who has come to know DE KOCK as a brilliant clini cian, or who has worked with him in the lung function labo ratory - he has made important contributions in this field also would have expected him to produce a monograph of this calibre. Now we have such a book. It contains the selected results of many years' solid work. Due attention is, of course, also accorded the merits of the various bronchoscopic techniques which provide the essential background to satisfactory results. In writing this book DE KOCK has succeeded in projecting a vivid image of the bronchi and the functional lung into our mind's eye. This work undoubtedly opens new prospects in improved care of our patients.
Contents
1. Indications for and Contraindications to Bronchoscopy.- Indications.- Contraindications.- 2. Equipment and Technique.- Anesthesia.- Manipulation of the Bronchoscope.- 3. Normal Anatomy and Function of the Airways as Seen Through the Bronchoscope.- The Carina.- Right Main Bronchus.- Left Main Bronchus.- Some General Comments.- 4. Dynamic Changes in the Bronchial Tree Under Conditions of Quiet Respiration or Coughing.- Abnormal Dynamics of the Airways.- Further Use of the Bronchoscope as a Research Tool in Obstructive Airways Disease.- 5. Tumors.- Bronchoscopic Evidence of Inoperability.- 6. Trauma of the Airways.- 7. Bronchial Lavage and Postoperative Lobar and Segmental Collapse of the Lungs.- 8. Tuberculosis Involving the Airways.- Primary Amyloid Disease of the Airways.- 9. The Normal Mucous Membrane and Inflammatory Changes.- 10. Bronchography via the Bronchoscope.- References.- Illustrations.
