عنوان

Problems in Respiratory Medicine

(Number (ISBN

9401172188

(Number (ISBN

9789401172189

Number

b553963

Title Proper

Problems in Respiratory Medicine

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

by Paul Forgacs.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Dordrecht

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer Netherlands

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1981

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(158 pages)

Series Title

Problems in practice series, 2.

Text of Note

1 Symptoms, clinical signs and breathing tests --;Cough --;Sputum --;Haemoptysis --;Dyspnoea --;Pain --;Percussion --;Auscultation --;Clubbing of the fingers-Cyanosis --;Pursed-lip breathing --;2 Pneumonia --;Defences of the lung-Factors predisposing to infection --;Classification --;Clinicalfeatures --;Investigations --;Complications --;Recurrent pneumonia --;Differential diagnosis --;Treatment --;3 Chronic bronchitis --;Prevalence --;Pathology --;Clinicalfeatures --;Investigations --;Differential diagnosis --;Complications --;Treatment --;4 Asthma --;Pathogenesis --;Classification --;Clinicalfeatures --;Investigations --;Differential diagnosis --;Prognosis --;Treatment --;5 Tuberculosis --;Mortality --;Natural history --;Presentation --;Diagnostic tests --;Investigation of contacts --;Prevention --;Treatment --;6 Cancer of the lung --;Mortality --;Aetiology --;Classification --;Presentation --;Clinicalsigns --;Progress --;Investigations --;Differential diagnosis --;Prevention --;Treatment --;7 Pleural effusions --;Aetiology --;Investigations --;Differential diagnosis --;Tumours of the pleura --;Complications --;Treatment --;8 Recurrent respiratory illness in children --;Viral infections --;Cystic fibrosis --;Immune deficiencies --;Bronchiectasis --;9 Fibrosing alveolitis --;Diagnosis --;Treatment --;10 Spontaneous pneumothorax --;Pathogenesis --;Symptoms and signs --;Treatment --;11 Pulmonary sarcoidosis --;Natural history --;Treatment --;Further reading.

Text of Note

The topics chosen for discussion represent the most common problems referred by family doctors to chest clinics. A similar change of attitude to the management of chronic bronchitis brought many new patients to the chest clinics in place of the vanishing tuberculous population.

Family medicine.

Medicine.

Pneumology.

Class number

Book number

by Paul Forgacs.

Paul Forgacs

Electronic name

[Book]

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