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

By L. H. Blumgart, Y. Fong, Leslie H. Blumgart MD, et al.

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 surgeryExtensively streamlined and updated text
Over 200 new operative line illustrationHighly illustrated and referenced authoritative
New chapters - new coverageMore emphasis on operative techniques
Includes CD-ROM with video sequencesOver 250 new illustrationsEmphasis on techniques - a How to do it approach
Includes the new developments in liver transplantationLaparoscopic coverage fully integrated
Expanded coverage of non surgical treatment of tumors

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0702025011
• ISBN13: 9780702025013
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Saunders Ltd.
• Length: 2352 Pages
• Weight: 9.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.3" x 9.5" x 6.3"