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    • Author/Creator:Prieto, Jesús.
    • Title:Hepatobiliary Diseases [electronic resource] / edited by Jesús Prieto, Joan Rodés, David A. Shafritz.
    • ISBN:9783642768026
    • Published/Created:Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1992.
    • Physical Description:1 online resource.
    • Links:https://yale.idm.oclc.org/login?URL=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76802-6
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    • Summary:This book covers the entire spectrum of hepatobiliary diseases. It deals in detail with their causes and mechanisms, the techniques employed in their diagnosis, and the various forms of treatment that are adopted. The conceptual and technological advances of recent years are fully discussed, with new areas of interest receiving due consideration.
    • Variant and related titles:Springer ebooks.
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    • Format:Book
    • Contents:<B>Contents</B>: Anatomy and structure of the liver and biliary tree -- Biochemical investigations in the management of liver disease -- Molecular biology of the liver -- Immunology and the liver -- Diagnostic imaging of the hepatobiliary system -- The Role of Direct Morphologic Methods: Liver biopsy and elementary hepatic lesions. Laparoscopy -- Bilirubin metabolism and hyperbilirubinaemia -- Bile salts, bile flow and cholestasis -- Chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis -- Portal-systemic encephalopathy -- Portal hypertension -- Ascites and renal and electrolyte abnormalities in cirrhosis -- Viral hepatitis A and E -- Viral hepatitis B and D -- Viral hepatitis C -- Liver involvement in systemic infection -- Protozoal and Helminthic Diseases of the Liver and Biliary Tract -- The liver in pregnancy and in systemic diseases -- Drug- induced liver diseases -- Alcoholic liver disease -- Autoimmune chronic active hepatitis -- Primary biliary cirrhosis and sclerosing cholangitis -- Wilson's disease: Pathophysiology and therapy -- Haemochromatosis -- Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency -- The porphyrias -- Pediatric metabolic liver diseases -- Disordered embryogenesis of the hepatobiliary tract -- Fatty liver disease and nutritional liver damage -- Circulatory disorders and vascular disease affecting the liver -- Acute hepatic failure -- Tumors of the liver and biliary tract -- Liver transplantation -- Gallstones.
    • Subjects:Medicine.
      Microbiology.
      Gastroenterology.
      Clinical medicine.
      Pathology.
    • Also listed under:Rodés, Joan.
      Shafritz, David A.
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