ABSTRACT
Extrathoracic airways 9 Overview; nares and rostral nasal passages; nasal septum; conchae and paranasal sinuses; guttural pouches; nasopharynx; hard and soft palate; epiglottis; larynx; cervical trachea
Intrathoracic airways and the lungs 22 Tracheobronchial tree; pulmonary circulation; bronchial circulation
Diagnostic imaging 51 Radiography; computed tomography; nuclear imaging; ultrasonography
Sampling of respiratory secretions 55 Tracheal wash; bronchoalveolar lavage; airway brushing
Airway and lung biopsy 59 Endobronchial biopsy; percutaneous lung biopsy; thoracoscopic lung biopsy
Aerosol therapy 73 Principles of aerosol therapy; aerosol delivery devices; aerolization of antimicrobials
Chronic cough 86 Heaves (recurrent airway obstruction); inflammatory airway disease; parasitic pneumonitis
Mucopurulent nasal discharge 104 Sinus diseases; guttural pouch empyema; strangles
Epistaxis 118 Exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage; ethmoid hematoma; guttural pouch mycosis; miscellaneous causes of epistaxis
Milk 132 Cleft palate; dorsal displacement of the soft palate
Introduction 139 Pleuropneumonia/pneumonia; heaves (recurrent airway obstruction); interstitial lung diseases; proximal airway obstruction
Stridor 152 Nasal diseases: atheroma; alar fold obstruction; nasal septum obstruction; nasal polyps. Pharyngeal and laryngeal diseases: dorsal displacement of the soft palate; epiglottic entrapment; epiglottic retroversion; axial deviation of the aryepiglottic folds; epiglottitis; rostral displacement of the palatopharyngeal arch; laryngeal hemiplegia; arytenoid chondritis. Tracheal diseases: collapsing trachea; tracheal trauma; tracheal neoplasia
Wry nose; choanal atresia; palatoschisis (cleft palate); cysts; branchial arch defects; guttural pouch tympany
