Main description:

Key Features:
1. Reviews multiple rare lung diseases, including ones acquired congenitally to be expressed in old age.
2. Enriched with case studies and illustrations, guides the respiratory physicians and trainees to devise an effective treatment plan.
3. Focuses on concerned investigations, with a section on role of new procedures in the management.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Developmental lung anomalies in adults

Rare genetic lung diseases

Chapter 3: Genetic infiltrative lung diseases
Chapter 4: Alpha-1- antitrypsin deficiency

Rare airway disorders

Chapter 5: Benign central airway disorders
Chapter 6: Bronchiolitis
Chapter 7: Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis (ABPA)

Rare pulmonary vascular diseases

Chapter 8: Pulmonary Arteriovenous Malformations (PAVMs) and Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT)
Chapter 9: Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage (DAH) syndromes
Chapter 10: Pulmonary Veno-occlusive Disease and Pulmonary Capillary Hemangiomatosis

Rare diffuse parenchymal lung diseases

Chapter 11: Pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis (PPFE)
Chapter 12: Immunoglobulin G4-related lung disease
Chapter 13: Eosinophilic lung diseases
Chapter 14: Hard Metal Lung Disease and Other Rare Occupational Lung Diseases
Chapter 15: Adult Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis

Rare diffuse cystic lung diseases

Chapter 16: Lymphangioleiomyomatosis
Chapter 17: Lymphocytic Interstitial Pneumonia and associated Cystic Lung Diseases
Chapter 18: Birt Hogg Dube Syndrome
Chapter 19: Pulmonary Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis and other histiocytic lung diseases

Rare pulmonary neoplasms

Chapter 20: Primary pulmonary lymphoproliferative disorders
Chapter 21: Diffuse Idiopathic Pulmonary Neuroendocrine Cell Hyperplasia
Chapter 22: Pulmonary Amyloidosis
Chapter 23: Primary tracheal tumors

Rare pleural disorders

Chapter 24: Unusual causes of pleural effusions
Chapter 25: Thoracic endometriosis
Chapter 26: Tumours of the Pleura