Transbronchial cryobiopsy in diffuse parenchymal lung disease

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Poletti, Venerino (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Respiratory organs-Diseases.; Radiology.; Pathology.; Anesthesiology.; Pneumology/Respiratory System.; Imaging / Radiology.

This book presents both theoretical and practical aspects of transbronchial cryobiopsy, a new diagnostic technique for the detection of diffuse parenchymal lung disease that is attracting great interest in the scientific community. In the context of a multidisciplinary discussion, comprising radiolo...

Table of Contents:

• I Introduction to Diffuse Parenchimal Lung Disease
• 1 Diffuse Parenchymal Lung Disease: A Clinical Overview
• 2 Radiologic-pathologic Correlations in Diffuse Parenchymal Lung Disease
• 3 Multidisciplinary discussion in Diffuse Parenchymal Lung Disease
• II Transbronchial cryobiopsy
• 4 Cryobiopsy: Physics
• 5 Cryobiopsy: How it Happened
• 6 Technique and equipment in Transbronchial Cryobiopsy
• 7 Complications in Transbronchial Cryobiopsy
• 8 Immunohystochemistry and Molecular Biology in Transbronchial Cryobiopsy
• III Clinical role of Transbronchial Cryobiopsy
• 9 The Diagnostic Yield of Transbronchial Cryobiopsy
• 10 Clinical Meaning of Transbronchial Cryobiopsy
• 11 Pathologic considerations in Transbronchial Cryobiopsy
• 12 Future perspectives for Transbronchial Cryobiopsy in Diffuse Parenchymal Lung Disease
• IV Case series
• 13 Idiopahic Pulmonary Fibrosis
• 14 Chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis
• 15 Other granulomatoses
• 16 Nonspecific interstitial pneumonia
• 17 Collagen vascular diseases
• 18 Smoking related ILDs
• 19 Lymphangioleiomyomatosis
• 20 Pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis
• 21 Acute lung injury
• 22 Neoplasms
• 23 Rarities.