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Liver and Biliary Surgery provides an illustrative, instructive, and comprehensive review that depicts the rationale of basic operative principles essential to liver and biliary surgical therapy.The chapters provide pertinent and concise summaries of how to deal with various liver and biliary disorders, spanning benign and malignant problems and minimally invasive procedures. Stages of operative approaches with relevant technical considerations are outlined in an easily understandable manner. Complications are reviewed when appropriate for the organ system and problem. The text is illustrated throughout by line drawings and photographs that depict anatomic or technical principles.A concise, handbook-sized reference work, this book is a valuable resource for all general surgeons and residents in training.

Liver and Biliary Surgery

Part 1: Liver-Benign.- Hepatitis.- Differential Diagnosis of the Liver Mass.- Benign Hepatic Neoplasms.- Hepatic Abscess: Current Concepts.- Portal Hypertension.- Cystic Liver Diseases.- Liver Transplantation for Budd-Chiari Syndrome.- Liver Hemangioma.- Part 2: Liver-Malignant.- Hepatocellular Carcinoma.- Metastatic Cancer of the Liver.- Part 3: Biliary-Benign.- Postcholecystectomy Syndrome.- Asymptomatic Gallstones.- Bile Duct Injury Following Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy.- Cholelithiasis.- Choledocholithiasis.- Choledochal Cysts.- Biliary Dyskinesia: Functional Gallbladder and Sphincter of Oddi Disorders.- Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis.- Part 4: Biliary-Malignant.- Perihilar Cholangiocarcinoma.- Cancer of the Gallbladder.- Part 5: Minimally Invasive Procedures.- Laparoscopic Common Bile Duct Exploration.