Diseases of the Liver and Biliary System

Preface to the Ninth Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Anatomy and Function; Assessment of Liver Function; Needle Biopsy of the Liver; The Haematology of Liver Disease; Ultrasound, Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Hepato-cellular Failure; Hepatic Encephalopathy; 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 Disease; The Liver in Infancy and Childhood; The Liver in Pregnancy; The Liver in Systemic Disease; Hepatic Trauma; The Liver in Infections; Hepatic Tumours; Imaging of the Biliary Tract: Interventional Radiology and Endoscopy; Cysts and Congenital Biliary Abnormalities; Gallstones and Inflammatory Gallbladder Diseases; Benign Stricture of the Bile Ducts; Diseases of the Ampulla of Vater and Pancreas; Tumours of the Gallbladder and Bile Ducts; Hepatic Transplantation; Index.