Pleural Diseases6th Edition
W. Light Richard
Wolters Kluwer Health. 504. £90.00. 978-1451175998.
In your clinical practice, imagine that tomorrow you are dealing with a patient with recent pleural pain and multiple pleural nodules suggesting cancerous lesions in the posterior region of the left hemithorax. However, the positron emission tomography scan does not favour malignancy. In your list of aetiological diagnoses, will you raise the possibility that the previous history of abdominal injury in your patient may have led to thoracic splenosis? How will you confirm this diagnosis? What is the treatment?
This example is the beginning of the answer to the following question: why write a book about pleural diseases? First, physicians and, in particular, pulmonologists are challenged …