• ISBN13: 9780316084345
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Medical, Nursing and Health Sciences
• Publisher: Wolters Kluwer
• Publisher Imprint: Lippincott
• Publication Date: October 13, 1998
• Pages: 848
• Original Price: 229.0 USD
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 1500 grams

About the Book Written by 72 international specialists, these volumes bring together a variety of disciplines to provide a survey of the state-of-the-art of knowledge in pulmonary disease. This sixth edition has been updated and expanded, with new chapters, approaches and authors added, to provide coverage of developments in the field. Many chapters have new, first-author perspectives to provide information to help the reader understand, diagnose, manage and treat even the most complex pulmonary diseases. It deals with the diagnosis of lung disease in the presence of multi-system disorders, and eleven updated chapters cover pulmonary manifestations in a variety of systemic disorders, including rheumatologic, renal, obstetric, dermatologic, skeletal, and more.