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MACSWEEN'S PATHOLOGY OF THE LIVER
MacSween's Pathology of the Liver
with CD-ROM
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Fifth Edition

Edited By
Alastair Burt, BSc, MD, FRCPath, FlBiol,, Dean of Clinical Medicine and Professor of Pathology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Bernard Portmann, MD, FRCPath, Professor of Hepatopathology, Guy's, King's and St. Thomas' School of Medicine, University of London; Consultant Histopathologist, Institute of Liver Studies, Kings College Hospital, London, UK
Linda Ferrell, MD, Professor of Pathology, Vice-Chair of Clinical Affairs, Director of Surgical Pathology, Department of Anatomic Pathology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA

Description
Highly Commended, Gastroenterology, BMA Awards 2007

This lavishly illustrated text provides you with all of the information necessary to effectively diagnose and confidently sign out hepatobilary tissue samples. An invaluable aid to pathologists at all levels of training and practice, this book covers the full range of both benign and malignant lesions of the liver and biliary tract. All entities are accompanied by carefully chosen photographs of outstanding quality. Summary tables, diagnostic flow charts, and analytic tables give you all the information you need for rapid interpretation and accurate diagnosis.

Audience
Diagnostic Surgical Pathologists

Contents
1 Development, structure and function

2 Basic mechanisms in hepatopathology

3 Cellular and molecular diagnostic techniques

4 Developmental abnormalities and liver disease in childhood

5 Inherited metabolic errors and liver disease

6 Alcoholic liver disease

7 Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

8 Viral Hepatitis

9 Other viral and infectious diseases and HIV-related liver disease

10 Autoimmune hepatitis

11 Diseases of the bile ducts

12 Diseases of the gallbladder

13 Vascular disorders

14 Drugs and toxins

15 Tumours and tumour-like lesions

16 Transplantation pathology

17 Liver pathology associated with diseases of other organs or systems


Bibliographic details
Hardbound, 992 pages, publication date: NOV-2006
ISBN-13: 978-0-443-10012-3
ISBN-10: 0-443-10012-8
Imprint: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE


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