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The Thorax: Medical, Radiological, and Pathological Assessment

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The current medical practice has become more of a team effort rather than an isolated practice.  The current evaluation of patients in the daily practice is essentially performed by medical assessment of the patient in question followed by diagnostic imaging, and when needed and possible the evaluation of tissue for diagnosis with its subsequent assessment of biomarkers and other ancillary tools that play an important role in the evaluation and prognosis.  The book herein proposed will exactly provide such assessment focused in the thoracic assessment of patients afflicted with any particular disease of the thorax.  Expert clinician in pulmonary medicine will provide the state of the art in the evaluation of such patients, which will provide the most important background in the clinical impression and further assessment of these patients.  This assessment in most cases is followed by the evaluation of imaging, which provides a highly important information of not only the exact location of the process but also of the nature of whether is localized, infiltrative, diffuse, bilateral, etc., as well as the possible compromise of other adjacent structures.  Such information is crucial as imaging and clinical information will provide a working diagnosis, which ultimately will be defined by the pathological assessment.  Therefore, in real practice neither one of these subspecialties works alone or in isolation.  On the contrary, each one depends on the other for the final diagnosis and proper management of patients with thoracic diseases.  Based on such experience is that the current text will provide in the same text of the needed information that a clinician, radiologist or pathologist will need in order to arrive to the best possible conclusion.

The scope of this book is unique in its nature as currently, even though there are several text on either one of those specialties, those publication are strictly on the either radiology, medicine or pathology.  Our proposed text will bring all those together in a single text and written by experts in their respective field.  This book should be of interest to all of those in the practice of thoracic medicine (radiologist, pulmonologist, pathologists) and any one who in the general practice is confronted with the evaluation of these patients.

Preface

The thorax is a host of a wealth of conditions that range from reactive, infectious, idiopathic, benign, and malignant tumoral entities representing all the different lineages and etiologies. It is important to highlight that the diagnosis of numerous conditions requires strong clinical information and expert radiological interpretation so that the histopathological findings can be placed in the proper perspective. Also, because the thorax is a common host for metastatic diseases, it is imperative that those involved in the practice and management of patients suffering from thoracic conditions adhere to the practice of proper clinical-radiological-pathological correlations in order to clearly define the process that may be affecting either the pleura, lung, or mediastinum. Although in some instances the finding of a pulmonary mass or a mediastinal mass may be enough, more often than not, the correlation of clinical and pathological findings aids extensively in the understanding of whatever the process might be.

In the current text, we provide the collective experience of the many authors who have provided us with their expertise and knowledge to further advance the understanding of thoracic diseases. More importantly is the emphasis that we provide in terms of close clinicalradiological-pathological correlations in the numerous entities addressed in this text. We are also aware that as inclusive as we have been, there are entities that have escaped discussion. However, the text facilitates the daily practice of the most common and also unusual conditions that may affect the thorax.

We are fortunate and indebted to the numerous authors who contributed their knowledge to make this text a companion of the daily practice, regardless of whether your interest lies on the medical, radiological, or pathological information of the entities herein presented. The goal of the text is to provide an overall knowledge of the three subspecialties and how global interpretation of many entities can be consolidated so that we can bring it to the bedside whenever it is necessary.

Finally, we hope that this text further improves the communication that must exist among clinicians, radiologists, and pathologists involved in the management of thoracic conditions, which in the end can be translated into better patient care.

• Title: The Thorax: Medical, Radiological, and Pathological Assessment
  
• Author(s): Cesar A. Moran Mylene T. Truong, Patricia M. de Groot
  
• Publisher: Springer
  
• Year: 2023
  
• Edition: – Edition
  
• Language: English
  
• Pages: 929
  
• Ebook:  PDF
  
• File size: 256 MB
  
• ISBN Number: 3031210395, 9783031210396
  
• CBID: CBM402
  

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