Pulmonary Endocrine Pathology. Endocrine Cells and Endocrine Tumours of the Lung

This book gives a clear, concise and comprehensive account of current knowledge in the rapidly developing field of pulmonary endocrinology. It considers all aspects of the anatomy, physiology and pathology of the pulmonary endocrine system with particular emphasis on the tumours which follow its line of differentiation. There is a discussion of the nature and components of the diffuse endocrine system followed by a detailed review of the structure and functions of its pulmonary component and its reaction to disease and injury. There is a comprehensive account of the biology of those pulmonary tumours characterized by endocrine differentiation with particular emphasis on their pathology and the ways in which their endocrine nature is manifest, from the cellular level to that of the subject in which they grow