The Thorax

First text to cover medical assessment, diagnostic imaging, and pathology

An aid for final diagnosis and proper management

Written by experts in their respective field

About this book

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.

Table of contents (27 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-xvi

Serosal Surface

The Pleura

Chad D. Strange, Jitesh Ahuja, Saadia A. Faiz, Horiana B. Grosu, William C. Harding, Keerthana Keshava et al.

Pages 3-99

The Mediastinum

Normal Thymus

Chad D. Strange, Patricia M. de Groot, Mylene T. Truong, Cesar A. Moran

Pages 103-116

Thymoma

Chad D. Strange, Jitesh Ahuja, Christina Thornton, Erik Vakil, Patricia M. de Groot, Mylene T. Truong et al.

Pages 117-136

Thymic Carcinoma

Chad D. Strange, Jitesh Ahuja, Christina Thornton, Erik Vakil, Patricia M. de Groot, Mylene T. Truong et al.

Pages 137-153

Neuroendocrine Neoplasms

Chad D. Strange, Patricia M. de Groot, Mylene T. Truong, Cesar A. Moran

Pages 155-175

Mediastinal Germ Cell Tumors

Chad D. Strange, Patricia M. de Groot, Mylene T. Truong, Cesar A. Moran

Pages 177-195

Mesenchymal Tumors of the Mediastinum

David I. Suster, A. Craig Mackinnon, Jitesh Ahuja, Patricia M. de Groot, Mylene T. Truong

Pages 197-219

Mediastinal Lymphoproliferative Disorders

Sergio Pina-Oviedo, Chad D. Strange

Pages 221-296

Miscellaneous Conditions

Chad D. Strange, Patricia M. de Groot, Mylene T. Truong, Cesar A. Moran

Pages 297-308

Lung: Neoplastic Conditions

Non-Small Cell Carcinoma

Donald R. Lazarus, Chad D. Strange, Jitesh Ahuja, Girish S. Shroff, Bradley S. Sabloff, Patricia M. de Groot et al.

Pages 311-372

Neuroendocrine Neoplasms of the Lung

Philip G. Ong, Chad D. Strange, Jitesh Ahuja, Girish S. Shroff, Bradley S. Sabloff, Patricia M. de Groot et al.

Pages 373-409

Salivary Gland-Type Tumors of the Lung

Ala Eddin Sagar, Mohammed Salhab, Archan Shah, Chad D. Strange, Jitesh Ahuja, Girish S. Shroff et al.

Pages 411-449

Biphasic Neoplasms of the Lung

Chad D. Strange, Jitesh Ahuja, Girish S. Shroff, Bradley S. Sabloff, Patricia M. de Groot, Mathieu Marcoux et al.

Pages 451-459

Benign and Malignant Mesenchymal Tumors of the Lung

David I. Suster, Craig Mackinnon, Jitesh Ahuja, Chad D. Strange, Mathieu Marcoux, Patricia M. de Groot et al.

Pages 461-476

Pulmonary Lymphoproliferative Disorders

Sergio Pina-Oviedo, Girish S. Shroff, Chad D. Strange, Jitesh Ahuja, Bradley S. Sabloff, Labib Gilles Debiane et al.

Pages 477-564

Tumors of Uncertain Histogenesis

Chad D. Strange, Jitesh Ahuja, Girish S. Shroff, Bradley S. Sabloff, Pushan P. Jani, Alexis Preston

Pages 565-580

Uncommon Tumors of the Lung

Cesar A. Moran, Patricia M. de Groot, Mylene T. Truong, Pushan P. Jani, Alexis Preston, Sarah A. Holevinski et al.

Pages 581-597

Lung: Non-neoplastic Conditions

Interstitial Lung Diseases

Rodeo Abrencillo, Isabel C. Mira-Avendano, Rosa M. Estrada-Y-Martin, Irina Sadovnikov, Colin Zuchowski, Gokhan Kuyumcu et al.

Pages 601-660

Connective Tissue Disease-Associated Interstitial Lung Disease

Reeba Mathew, Sungryong Noh

Pages 661-691

Pneumoconiosis

Sujith V. Cherian, Anupam Kumar, Patricia M. de Groot, Mylene T. Truong, Cesar A. Moran

Pages 693-710

Pulmonary Vasculitides

Maryam Kaous, Lilit A. Sargsyan, Diana Palacio, Jennifer A. Febbo, Loren Ketai, Matthew D. Gilman et al.

Pages 711-762

Emphysema and Cystic Lung Disease

Selvin Jacob, Mark T. Warner

Pages 763-779

Airspace Diseases and Pulmonary Nodules

Rodeo Abrencillo, Isabel C. Mira-Avendano, Rosa M. Estrada-Y-Martin, Diana Palacio, Anjali Taneja, Gabriel Duhancioglu et al.

Pages 781-825

Infectious Diseases That May Mimic Lung Cancer

Brandy J. McKelvy, Jose A. B. Araujo-Filho, Myrna C. B. Godoy, Patricia M. de Groot, Mylene T. Truong, Cesar A. Moran

Pages 827-851

Miscellaneous Conditions

Rodeo Abrencillo, Isabel C. Mira-Avendano, Rosa M. Estrada-Y-Martin, Diana Palacio, Gokhan Kuyumcu, Labib Gilles Debiane et al.

Pages 853-870

Iatrogenic Conditions

Diana Palacio, Usha Jayagurunathan, Girish S. Shroff, Patricia M. de Groot, Mylene T. Truong, Cesar A. Moran

Pages 871-905

Pathology of the Lung Allograft

Sakda Sathirareuangchai, Jose R. Torrealba

Pages 907-920

Back Matter

Pages 921-934