Description
1. Contains images and videos of challenging cases to aid learning for speciality and certification exams
2. Serves as an invaluable resource for pulmonologists, radiologists, critical care physicians, and trainees
3. First case history-based book to be published exclusively for pleural medicine.
Table of Contents
1. A post operative pleural effusion 2. Pleural effusion and chest pain in an elderly gentleman 3. A difficult to drain effusion 4. A recurrent and persistent effusion 5. To ambulate or admit? 6. Right sided pleural effusion in a young Nepalese man 7. Bilateral transudative effusions 8. Renal failure and pleural fluid 9. Management of pleural effusion in a patient with known liver disease 10. Pleural effusion and thickening after asbestos exposure 11. Recurrent effusion in a cyclist 12. Pleural thickening and effusion in a traveller 13. Recurrent effusion in a patient on amiodarone 14. A case of green pleural fluid 15. Pleural effusion in a patient with previous pancreatitis 16. Pleural effusion and abnormal bones 17. Pleural effusion in a patient with Chronic Myeloid Leukemia 18. An unusual pleural abnormality 19. Pneumothorax in chronic lung disease 20. Air in the wrong place 21. Recurrent chest pain in a young woman 22. An interesting case of recurrent pneumothoraces 23. Post effusion drainage complication in a 86 year old gentleman 24. Chest pain in a 65 year old writer post pleural fluid aspiration 25. A simple pneumothorax?
