Diseases of the Liver and Biliary System

Preface to the Eleventh Edition.
Preface to the First Edition.
1. Anatomy and Function.
2. Assessment of Liver Function.
3. Biopsy of the Liver.
4. The Haematology of Liver Disease.
5. Ultrasound, Computed Tomography and Magnetic ResonanceImaging.
6. Hepato-cellular Failure.
7. Hepatic Encephalopathy.
8. Acute Liver Failure.
9. Ascites.
10. The Portal Venous System and Portal Hypertension.
11. The Hepatic Artery and Hepatic Veins: the Liver inCirculatory Failure.
12. Jaundice.
13. Cholestasis.
14. Primary Biliary Cirrhosis.
15. Sclerosing Cholangitis.
16. Virus Hepatitis: General Features, Hepatitis A. Hepatitis Eand Other Viruses.
17. Hepatitis B Virus and Hepatitis Delta Virus.
18. Hepatitis C Virus.
19. Chronic Hepatitis: General Features, and Autoimmune ChronicDisease,.
20. Drugs and the Liver.
21. Hepatic Cirrhosis.
22. Alcohol and the Liver.
23. Iron Overload States.
24. Wilson's Disease.
25. Nutritional and Metabolic Liver Diseases.
26. The Liver in Infancy and Childhood.
27. The Liver in Pregnancy.
28. The Liver in Systemic Disease Granulomas and HepaticTrauma.
29. The Liver in Infections.
30. Nodules and Benign Liver Lesions.
31. Malignant Liver Tumours.
32. Imaging of the Biliary Tract: Interventional Radiology andEndoscopy.
33. Cysts and Congenital Biliary Abnormalities.
34. Gallstones and Inflammatory Gallbladder Diseases.
35. Benign Stricture of the Bible Ducts.
36. Diseases of the Ampulla of Vater and Pancreas.
37. Tumours of the Gallbladder and Bile Ducts.
35. Hepatic Transplantation.
Index.