Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Issue 06 · Volume 31 · December 2010 DOI: 10.1055/s-002-21585 Pleural Diseases Steven A Sahn M.D.

PREFACE

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Sahn, Steven A: Pleural Diseases

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Murali, Rajmohan; Park, Kevin; Leslie, Kevin O: The Pleura in Health and Disease

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Ayres, John; Gleeson, Fergus: Imaging of the Pleura

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Porcel, José M: Pleural Effusions from Congestive Heart Failure

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Alonso, José Castellote: Pleural Effusion in Liver Disease

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Wrightson, John M; Davies, Robert J. O: The Approach to the Patient with a Parapneumonic Effusion

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Light, Richard W: Pleural Effusion in Pulmonary Embolism

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Heffner, John E: Management of the Patient with a Malignant Pleural Effusion

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Doelken, Peter: Management of Pleural Effusion in the Cancer Patient

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Huggins, J. Terrill: Chylothorax and Cholesterol Pleural Effusion

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Noppen, Marc: The Utility of Thoracoscopy in the Diagnosis and Management of Pleural Disease

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Fysh, Edward T. H; Smith, Nicola A; Lee, Y. C Gary: Optimal Chest Drain Size: The Rise of the Small-Bore Pleural Catheter

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Haynes, Demondes; Baumann, Michael H: Management of Pneumothorax