Diseases of the Liver & Biliary System
by Shelia Sherlock, James Dooley, Sheila, Md. Sherlock Hardcover 11th edition (January 15, 2002)
Blackwell Science Inc; ISBN: 0632055820
ContentsA comprehensive account which contains 35 chapters describing disorders of the liver and biliary system by the functional and morphological changes which they produce. Complex concepts and findings are distilled to make them accessible to students, interns, postgraduate trainees, and generalists. The new edition of this time- tested reference (first published in 1963) reflects wide-ranging advances by incorporating 1,000 new references and 100 new figures. --
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