Surgery of the Liver and Biliary Tract: 2-Volume Set with CD-Rom

Blumgart MD, Leslie H.,Fong MD FACS, Yuman

ISBN 10: 0702025011 / ISBN 13: 9780702025013

Published by Saunders Ltd., 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Surgery of the Liver and Biliary Tract: 2-Volume Set with CD-Rom
• Publisher: Saunders Ltd.
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0702025011
• ISBN 13: 9780702025013
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

This is the third edition of a classic text on surgery of the liver and biliary tract. Fully updated with a more streamlined approach, it offers the reader easy access to answers to their clinical questions. The new edition includes much more how to do it information, amply illustrated with over 200 new operative line diagrams, and has a greater emphasis on laparoscopic techniques.

New coverage of the management of tumors of the liver and biliary tract and of benign diseases of the liver and biliary tract.
Non surgical treatment of tumors has been extensively revised with the introduction of many new chapters on emerging techniques, eg. radio embolization for liver tumors and alcohol injections for liver tumors.
Updated to include the latest in biological understanding of disease processes.
Expanded section on liver transplantation, its complications and results.
Includes new developments in nuclear medicine, CT and MRI.  


Accompanied by a CD-ROM incorporating video sequences of operative techniques, and a library of many of the line diagrams in full colour, Surgery of the Liver and Biliary Tract 3/e is the definitive reference source for the specialist surgeon.

The Bible of hepatopancreatobiliary surgery

Extensively streamlined and updated text

Over 200 new operative line illustration

Highly illustrated and referenced authoritative

New chapters - new coverage

More emphasis on operative techniques

Includes CD-ROM with video sequences

Over 250 new illustrations

Emphasis on techniques - a How to do it approach

Includes the new developments in liver transplantation

Laparoscopic coverage fully integrated

Expanded coverage of non surgical treatment of tumors

About the Author

L.H Blumgart , Enid A Haupt Chair in Surgery, Diseases of the Liver and Biliary System, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York; Professor of Surgery, Cornell University Medical College, New York;
Y. Fong , Assistant Attending Physician, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York; Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Cornell University Medical College, New York