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BL
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734137
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b553963
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by Paul Forgacs.
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Problems in Respiratory Medicine\ by Paul Forgacs.
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| Publication Statement
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Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1981
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| Series Statement
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Problems in practice series, 2.
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(158 pages)
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| ISBN
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9401172188
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: 9789401172189
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| Contents
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1 Symptoms, clinical signs and breathing tests --;Cough --;Sputum --;Haemoptysis --;Dyspnoea --;Pain --;Percussion --;Auscultation --;Clubbing of the fingers-Cyanosis --;Pursed-lip breathing --;2 Pneumonia --;Defences of the lung-Factors predisposing to infection --;Classification --;Clinicalfeatures --;Investigations --;Complications --;Recurrent pneumonia --;Differential diagnosis --;Treatment --;3 Chronic bronchitis --;Prevalence --;Pathology --;Clinicalfeatures --;Investigations --;Differential diagnosis --;Complications --;Treatment --;4 Asthma --;Pathogenesis --;Classification --;Clinicalfeatures --;Investigations --;Differential diagnosis --;Prognosis --;Treatment --;5 Tuberculosis --;Mortality --;Natural history --;Presentation --;Diagnostic tests --;Investigation of contacts --;Prevention --;Treatment --;6 Cancer of the lung --;Mortality --;Aetiology --;Classification --;Presentation --;Clinicalsigns --;Progress --;Investigations --;Differential diagnosis --;Prevention --;Treatment --;7 Pleural effusions --;Aetiology --;Investigations --;Differential diagnosis --;Tumours of the pleura --;Complications --;Treatment --;8 Recurrent respiratory illness in children --;Viral infections --;Cystic fibrosis --;Immune deficiencies --;Bronchiectasis --;9 Fibrosing alveolitis --;Diagnosis --;Treatment --;10 Spontaneous pneumothorax --;Pathogenesis --;Symptoms and signs --;Treatment --;11 Pulmonary sarcoidosis --;Natural history --;Treatment --;Further reading.
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The topics chosen for discussion represent the most common problems referred by family doctors to chest clinics. A similar change of attitude to the management of chronic bronchitis brought many new patients to the chest clinics in place of the vanishing tuberculous population.
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Family medicine.
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Medicine.
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Pneumology.
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| LC Classification
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R729.5.G4B973 1981
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Paul Forgacs
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