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Diseases of the liver and biliary system
Title:
Diseases of the liver and biliary system
Author:
Sherlock, Sheila, Dame.
Personal Author:
Edition:
Eleventh edition.
Publication Information:
Oxford, UK ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Science, [2002]

©2002
Physical Description:
xvi, 706 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Anatomy and function -- Assessment of liver function -- Biopsy of the liver -- The haematology of liver disease -- Ultrasound, tomography and magnetic resonance imaging -- Hepato-cellular failure -- Hepatic encephalopathy -- Acute liver 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 -- Scherosing cholangitis -- Viral hepatitis: general features, hepatitis A, hepatitis E and other viruses -- Hepatitis B virus and hepatitis delta virus -- Hepatitis C virus -- Chronic hepatitis: general features, and autoimmune chronic disease -- 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, granulomas and hepatic trauma -- The liver in infections -- Nodules and benign liver lesions -- Malignant liver 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.
ISBN:
9780632055821
Format :
Book