Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword to the First Edition
- Preface to the Sixth Edition
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 The normal lung: histology, embryology, development, aging and function
- Chapter 2 Lung specimen handling and practical considerations
- Chapter 3 Congenital abnormalities and pediatric lung diseases, including neoplasms
- Chapter 4 Pulmonary bacterial infections
- Chapter 5 Pulmonary viral infections
- Chapter 6 Pulmonary mycobacterial infections
- Chapter 7 Pulmonary mycotic infections
- Chapter 8 Pulmonary parasitic infections
- Chapter 9 Acute lung injury
- Chapter 10 Interstitial lung diseases
- Chapter 11 Metabolic and inherited connective tissue disorders involving the lung
- Chapter 12 Hypersensitivity pneumonitis
- Chapter 13 Sarcoidosis
- Chapter 14 Occupational lung disease
- Chapter 15 Eosinophilic lung disease
- Chapter 16 Drug- and therapy-induced lung injury
- Chapter 17 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and diseases of the airways
- Chapter 18 Pulmonary vascular pathology
- Chapter 19 Pulmonary vasculitis and pulmonary hemorrhage syndromes
- Chapter 20 The pathology of lung transplantation
- Chapter 21 The lungs in connective tissue disease
- Chapter 22 Benign epithelial neoplasms and tumor-like proliferations of the lung
- Chapter 23 Pulmonary pre-invasive disease
- Chapter 24 Epidemiological and clinical aspects of lung cancer
- Chapter 25 Lung cancer staging
- Chapter 26 Immunohistochemistry in the diagnosis of pulmonary tumors
- Chapter 27 Adenocarcinoma of the lung
- Chapter 28 Squamous cell carcinoma of the lung
- Chapter 29 Large cell carcinoma and adenosquamous carcinoma of the lung
- Chapter 30 Salivary gland neoplasms of the lung
- Chapter 31 Neuroendocrine tumors and other neuroendocrine proliferations of the lung
- Chapter 32 Sarcomatoid carcinomas and variants
- Chapter 33 Mesenchymal and miscellaneous neoplasms
- Chapter 34 Pulmonary lymphoproliferative diseases
- Chapter 35 Metastases involving the lungs
- Chapter 36 Diseases of the pleura
- Index
Foreword to the First Edition
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2014
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword to the First Edition
- Preface to the Sixth Edition
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 The normal lung: histology, embryology, development, aging and function
- Chapter 2 Lung specimen handling and practical considerations
- Chapter 3 Congenital abnormalities and pediatric lung diseases, including neoplasms
- Chapter 4 Pulmonary bacterial infections
- Chapter 5 Pulmonary viral infections
- Chapter 6 Pulmonary mycobacterial infections
- Chapter 7 Pulmonary mycotic infections
- Chapter 8 Pulmonary parasitic infections
- Chapter 9 Acute lung injury
- Chapter 10 Interstitial lung diseases
- Chapter 11 Metabolic and inherited connective tissue disorders involving the lung
- Chapter 12 Hypersensitivity pneumonitis
- Chapter 13 Sarcoidosis
- Chapter 14 Occupational lung disease
- Chapter 15 Eosinophilic lung disease
- Chapter 16 Drug- and therapy-induced lung injury
- Chapter 17 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and diseases of the airways
- Chapter 18 Pulmonary vascular pathology
- Chapter 19 Pulmonary vasculitis and pulmonary hemorrhage syndromes
- Chapter 20 The pathology of lung transplantation
- Chapter 21 The lungs in connective tissue disease
- Chapter 22 Benign epithelial neoplasms and tumor-like proliferations of the lung
- Chapter 23 Pulmonary pre-invasive disease
- Chapter 24 Epidemiological and clinical aspects of lung cancer
- Chapter 25 Lung cancer staging
- Chapter 26 Immunohistochemistry in the diagnosis of pulmonary tumors
- Chapter 27 Adenocarcinoma of the lung
- Chapter 28 Squamous cell carcinoma of the lung
- Chapter 29 Large cell carcinoma and adenosquamous carcinoma of the lung
- Chapter 30 Salivary gland neoplasms of the lung
- Chapter 31 Neuroendocrine tumors and other neuroendocrine proliferations of the lung
- Chapter 32 Sarcomatoid carcinomas and variants
- Chapter 33 Mesenchymal and miscellaneous neoplasms
- Chapter 34 Pulmonary lymphoproliferative diseases
- Chapter 35 Metastases involving the lungs
- Chapter 36 Diseases of the pleura
- Index
Summary
Foreword to the First Edition
At first glance the lungs may seem uncomplicated, but many wise men have gone astray in their labyrinths. When apparently “simplified” as in emphysema, they have remained refractory to analysis. Disease commonly results in a profound but variable revision of their architecture. Their tumors form a bewildering array and some exert profound metabolic effects unsuspected until recently. Blood comes to the lungs from both sides of the heart, in a proportion that may deviate considerably from the norm under particular conditions. The vessels reflect alterations in hemodynamics, and when themselves changed, they can profoundly affect the work of the heart. The pulmonary capillaries, lying as a filter astride the venous outflow of all other organs, must often suffer the consequences. With each breath, also, the innermost recesses of the respiratory tract are brought very much into contact with a sometimes hostile external environment. The lungs are thus vulnerable from all sides. That we are not more often disabled we owe to their marvelous capacity to recover from injury and to their large reserve.
A man's medical history and the traces of his habits and his trade are often inscribed upon the lungs – for him who can read. Not since the monumental contribution of Fischer in the Handbook of Henke-Lubarsch have the lungs been so thoroughly or so well read, and the reading so well recorded as in this volume. Recent years have witnessed the identification, and even the introduction, of many new agents of pulmonary disease. Many other conditions such as “eosinophilic granuloma”, while still of unknown etiology, have been defined in anatomical terms. Cardiopulmonary disease in the broadest sense is now much better understood than it was twenty years ago. The intelligent use of the cardiac catheter in man and in many ingenious experiments in animals and the development of cardiac surgery have greatly broadened our comprehension of this subject. Although the current exponential increase in knowledge indicates how much there is yet to learn, the time is surely ripe for a sound and comprehensive statement of what is now known. Doctor Spencer has supplied this need admirably, and with a fine sense of history. Only a rare concurrence of meticulous scholarship and discernment could have enabled the condensation of so much information into so little space. This work will long be of interest and value to all students of disease.
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- Spencer's Pathology of the Lung , pp. xivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000