Part One - Basic Science1. Embryology and gross structureMing-Jen Peng and Nai-San Wang: 2. Cells in the pleural cavityMarie-Claude Jaurand, Yannick Pilatte and Jocelyne Fleury-Feith: 3. Liquid and protein exchangePayam Nahid and V. Courtney Broaddus: 4. Physiological effects of pleural air or fluidRichard W. Light: 5. Pleural inflammationVeena B.
Antony: 6. Cytokines in pleural diseasesY. C. Gary Lee and Kirk B. Lane: 7. Pleural infectionVeena B. Antony: 8. Pleural fibrosisSteven Idell: 9.
Pleural reaction to mineral dustsJaume Ferrer, Juan Montes Castillo and Jose Garcia Valero: 10. Genetics of malignant mesotheliomaJoseph R. Testa and Suresh C. Jhanwar: 11. PharmacokineticsBlair Capitano and Charles H Nightingale: 12. Experimental models in pleural diseaseY. C. Gary Lee: 13.
Experimental models of mesotheliomaDelia Nelson, Richard Lake and Bruce Robinson: Part Two - Clinical Science14. Approach to patients with pleural diseasesSteven A. Sahn: 15. Pleural fluid analysisSteven A. Sahn and John E. Heffner: 16. Diagnostic radiologyC. L.
Davies and F. V. Gleeson: 17. Interventional radiologyEdith M. Marom, Jeremy J. Erasmus and Edward F. Patz, Jr: 18. Pleural histologyPhilip T.
Cagle: 19. Pleural cytology, tumor markers and immunohistochemistryMark R. Wick: 20. Effusions from cardiac diseasesGary T. Kinasewitz and Alain A. Eid: 21. Effusions from vascular causesRichard W. Light: 22.
Effusions from malignancyFrancisco Rodriguez-Panadero: 23. Effusions from Parapneumonic infection and empyemaNick A. Maskell and Robert J. O. Davies: 24. Effusions from tuberculosisEsteban Perez Rodriguez, David Jimenez Castro and Richard W. Light: 25. Effusions from atypical infectionsLisete Ribiero Teixeria and Francisco S.
Vargas: 26. Effusions in immunocompromised hostsHeinrich Hamm: 27. Effusions from lymphatic disruptionsGunnar Hillerdal: 28. Effusions from collagen vascular diseaseJoseph P. Lynch, Steven A. Sahn and Jose Joseph: 29. Effusions due to drugsIoannis T. Kalomenidis: 30.
Effusions after surgeryR. Michael Rodriguez: 31. Hepatic hydrothoraxXavier Xiol: 32. Effusions due to gastrointestinal diseaseCharles Strange: 33. Effusions due to obstetrical and gynaecological conditionsRichard W. Light: 34. Benign Asbestos pleural diseasesA. William Musk and Nick.
H. de Klerk: 35. Malignant mesotheliomaPhilippe Astoul: 36. Spontaneous pneumothoraxAndrew C. Miller: 37. Non-spontaneous pneumothoraxMichael H. Baumann: 38. Pediatric pleural diseasesElizabeth A.
Perkett: 39. Drainage and biopsy techniquesHenri Colt: 40. Medical thoracoscopyRobert Loddenkemper: 41. Surgery of the Pleural CavityDavid A. Waller, John G. Edwards and Antonio E. Martin-Ucar: 42. Gene therapySteven M.
Albelda and Daniel H. Sterman: 43. Future DirectionsY. C. Gary Lee and Richard W. Light:.