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Diseases of the liver and biliary system /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sherlock, Sheila, Dame
Other Authors: Dooley, James (James S.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA : Blackwell Science, 2002.
Edition:Eleventh edition.
Subjects:
Liver Diseases.
Biliary Tract Diseases.
Table of Contents:
  • Anatomy and function
  • Assessment of liver function
  • Biopsy of the liver
  • The haematology of liver disease
  • Ultrasound, computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging
  • Hepato-cellular failure
  • Hepatic encephalopathy
  • Acute renal 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
  • Viral hepatitis : general features, hepatitis A, hepatitis E and other viruses
  • Hepatis 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 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