PATHOLOGY OF THE LIVER, 4/E

RSM and BMA 2002 Award Winner

The new edition of the definitive reference work on liver pathology

Comprehensive, authoritative and superbly illustrated, this book leads the field, with editors and contributors who represent a "who's who" of hepatopathology. The fourth edition is an invaluable bench-side reference and research tool for the day-to-day diagnosis of the wide range of appearances of the liver resulting from infection, tumours and tumour-like lesions or damage caused by drugs or toxins.

RSM - Winner - Second or Subsequent Edition Books

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BMA - Highly Commended - "This is a very authoritative and comprehensive work on liver pathology. There are no other books that have produced this extensive coverage of the topic. It will be a very useful reference for all pathology departments and all liver units."

Superbly illustrated in full colour throughout

Childhood and adult diseases covered

New developments in virology and immunopathology

Extended chapter on transplantation pathology with key information on the treatment of acute and chronic liver disease

Up-to-date information on normal structure and function, inherited metabolic disorders, injury due to drugs and toxins, biliary tract and vascular disorders, transplantation pathology and liver cytopathology

More on imaging where it aids diagnosis/biopsy

Greater emphasis on disease mechanisms

Professor Stefan G Hubscher graduated from Birmingham University in 1979 and has worked and trained there ever since. While his main clinical work has been in liver pathology, he also has strong interests in hepatic, biliary and pancreatic malignancy.

Linda Ferrell, M.D. is a liver pathologist, Professor of Pathology, Vice Chair of Clinical Services, and Director of Surgical Pathology at UCSF. She specializes in the diagnosis of liver disorders such as: benign liver tumors, cirrhosis, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, hepatocellular carcinoma, vascular lesions, metastastic cancer to the liver, liver transplantation, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH).

Professor Alastair Burt has a long-standing interest in the pathogenesis of liver fibrosis. This is an important part of progressive liver disease and an essential component for the development of cirrhosis. He played a pivotal role in establishing the principal cell type involved in fibrogenesis is the hepatic stellate cell and was the first to characterise their cell kinetics in the response to injury establishing that there is not only proliferation of these cells in response to necrosis but a phenotypic modulation to myofibroblast-like cell