Diseases of the Liver and Biliary System
10th Edition
Published on 24. December 1996
Book
Hardback
736 pages
978-0-86542-906-2 (ISBN)
Description
Diseases of the Liver and Biliary System continues to be the pre-eminent textbook of choice for trainee as well as practising gastroenterologists who want a clear and lucid description of the very latest issues in this growing discipline. Every chapter has been updated with the most recent advances in the study and control of hepatitis, in its various forms. Technical and therapeutic advances have appeared in all areas of hepatology, in particular portal hypertension, liver tumours, genetic diseases and imaging, both diagnostic and therapeutic. All are brought up-to-date in the very readable style characteristic of this standard text.
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Edition
10th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
670 illustrations, index
Dimensions
Height: 276 mm
Width: 219 mm
Weight
2482 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-86542-906-2 (9780865429062)
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Content
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 Resonance Imaging; 6. Hepato-cellular Failure; 7. Hepatic Encephalopathy; 8. Fulminant Hepatic Failure; 9. Ascites; 10. The Portal Venous System and Portal Hypertension; 11. The Hepatic Artery and Hepatic Veins: the Liver in Circulatory Failure; 12. Jaundice; 13. Cholestasis; 14. Primary Biliary Cirrhosis; 15. Sclerosing Cholangitis; 16. Virus Hepatitis; 17. Chronic Hepatitis; 18. Drugs and the Liver; 19. Hepatic Cirrhosis; 20. Alcohol and the Liver; 21. Iron Overload States; 22. Wilson's Disease; 23. Nutritional and Metabolic Liver Diseases; 24. The Liver in Infancy and Childhood; 25. The Liver in Pregnancy; 26. The Liver in System Disease: Hepatic Trauma; 27. The Liver in Infections; 28. Hepatic Tumours; 29. Imaging of the Biliary Tract: Interventional Radiology and Endoscopy; 30. Cysts and Congenital Biliary Abnormalities; 31. Gallstones and Inflammatory Gallbladder Diseases; 32. Benign Stricture of the Bile Ducts; 33. Diseases of the Ampulla of Vater and Pancreas; 34. Tumours of the Gallbladder and Bile Ducts; 35. Hepatic Transplantation; Index