title: Non-neoplastic surgical diseases of the lung and pleura.
abstract: Non-neoplastic diseases of the bronchi, pulmonary parenchyma, mediastinum, and pleura that are amenable to surgical management represent a wide range of unrelated etiopathogenic conditions that usually have a focal distribution. The author discusses the presurgical clinical, radiographic, and laboratory assessment and prognoses, and addresses therapeutic recommendations.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001982:Bronchial Diseases / Q000601:surgery / Q000662:veterinary*; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000601:surgery / Q000662:veterinary*; D008477:Mediastinal Diseases / Q000601:surgery / Q000662:veterinary*; D010995:Pleural Diseases / Q000601:surgery / Q000662:veterinary*; D011013:Pneumonectomy / Q000662:veterinary