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UNIT II: LUNGS AND PLEURA
B. Non-Neoplastic Lung Disease
Clinical Skills:
During the training program the resident:
- Diagnoses and treats patients with bacterial, fungal, tuberculous, and viral
lung infections;
- Performs operative and non-operative management of lung abscess;
- Performs resections of lung and bronchi in patients with non-neoplastic lung
disease;
- Manages patients with chronic obstructive lung disease, bronchospastic airway
disease, foreign bodies of the airways, and hemoptysis;
- Performs thoracentesis, mediastinoscopy, mediastinotomy, flexible and rigid
bronchoscopy, thoracoscopy, and open lung biopsy;
- Performs bronchoalveolar lavage and transbronchial lung biopsy.
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