Diseases of the Liver and Biliary System

Anatomy and function; assessment of liver functon; needle biopsy of the liver; the haematology of liver disease; ultrasound, computerized axial tomography and magnetic resonance imaging; hepatocellular failure; hepatic encephalopathy; acute (fulminant) hepatic failure; ascites; the portal venous system and portal hypertension; the hepatic artery and hepatic veins; the liver in circulatory failure; jaundice; cholestasis; primary biliary cirrhosis; sclerosing cholangitis; virus hepatitis; chronic hepatitis; drugs and the liver; hepatic cirrhosis; alcohol and the liver; iron overload states; Wilson's disease; nutritional and metabolic liver diseases; the liver in infancy and childhood; the liver in pregnancy; the liver in systemic disease; hepatic trauma; the liver in infections; hepatic tumours; investigation of the biliary tract; therapeutic imaging; cysts and congenital biliary abnormalities; gallstones and inflammatory gall bladder diseases; benign stricture of the bile ducts; diseases of the ampulla of vater and pancreas; tumours of the gall bladder and bile ducts; hepatic transplantation.