Chronic Obstructive Lung Diseases

Hamilton, Ontario: BC Decker Inc, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 428pp. Quarto [28 cm] Black cloth over boards lettered in gilt. With compact disc. The extremities are gently bumped and rubbed. Short pen mark to first page, else Internally clean and bright. A book on chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases presenting the authors' collective knowledge of the process by which the lung is destroyed. The book pays tribute to the early pioneers of chronic obstructive lung disease research and to the notion of a continuum of the pathobiology of the lung's cells from inflammation to lung cancer.