Diseases of the liver and biliary system
By: Sheila Sherlock, James Dooley.
Contributors: Dooley, James
Edition: 11th ed.
Publisher: Blackwell Science
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford, UK; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 706
Subjects: Liver Diseases; Biliary Tract Diseases
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Anatomy and function; title: Assessment of liver function; title: Biopsy of the liver; title: The haematology of liver disease; title: Ultrasound, tomography and magnetic resonance imaging; title: Hepato-cellular failure; title: Hepatic encephalopathy; title: Acute liver failure; title: Ascites; title: The portal venous system and portal hypertension; title: The hepatic artery and hepatic veins: the liver in circulatory failure; title: Jaundice; title: Cholestasis; title: Primary biliary cirrhosis; title: Scherosing cholangitis; title: Viral hepatitis: general features, hepatitis A, hepatitis E and other viruses; title: Hepatitis B virus and hepatitis delta virus; title: Hepatitis C virus; title: Chronic hepatitis: general features, and autoimmune chronic disease; title: Drugs and the liver; title: Hepatic cirrhosis; title: Alcohol and the liver; title: Iron overload states; title: Wilson's Disease; title: Nutritional and metabolic liver diseases; title: The liver in infancy and childhood; title: The liver in pregnancy; title: The liver in systemic disease, granulomas and hepatic trauma; title: The liver in infections; title: Nodules and benign liver lesions; title: Malignant liver tumours; title: Imaging of the biliary tract: interventional radiology and endoscopy; title: Cysts and congenital biliary abnormalities; title: Gallstones and inflammatory gallbladder diseases; title: Benign stricture of the bile ducts; title: Diseases of the Ampulla of Vater and pancreas; title: Tumours of the gallbladder and bile ducts; title: Hepatic transplantation.