Beschreibung
Instructive - Attractive - Unique Textbook Completely revised, updated and enlarged Close and continuous relation between pathomorphology, function and clinic Further improvements in content, systematology, didactics and colour design Numerous, sometimes unusual, but clinically proved suggestions ("tips and tricks") resulting from the author's practical experience Atlas A total number of 530 figures in colour and 320 tables in colour an hepatological atlas which is unique in form, extent and presentation Manual About 7,000 quoted publications Some 1,500 cited firstdescriptors of therapy procedures, methods, medical techniques and invasive measures A comprehensive index containing more than 3,000 terms and about 12,000 cited reference pages Register of abbreviations + ALL figures and tables on CD-ROM This textbook is escorted along its way by a foreword from: Ch. S. Lieber (New York, USA) 1st edition A. M. Hofmann (La Jolla, USA) 2nd edition U. M. Leuschner (Frankfurt, Germany) ) 2nd edition H. Denk (Graz, Austria) 3rd edition "The current edition contains up-to-date information, but also stands for tradition and progress in hepatology. The reader is carefully introduced into the subject matter and learns to experience and understand everything to the full extent. It is only possible to impart knowledge and to convey enthusiasm if one has great personal involvement. This certainly applies to the author, Erwin Kuntz." O. Univ. Prof. Dr. Helmut Denk, FRCPath Director of the Institute of Pathology University of Graz (Austria)
Inhaltsverzeichnis
From the contents Introduction to hepatology: History of hepatology, morphology of the liver, biochemistry and functions of the liver.- Diagnostics in liver diseases: clinical findings, laboratory diagnostics, sonography, liver biopsy and laparoscopy, radiological diagnostics, scintigraphic diagnostics, neurological and psychological diagnostics.- Symptoms and syndromes: hepatomegaly and splenomegaly, jaundice, cholestasis, portal hypertension, hepatic encephalopathy, oedema and ascites, hepatorenal syndrome hepatopulmonary syndrome, coagulopathy and haemorrhage, acute and chronic liver insufficiency.- Clinical aspects of liver diseases: clinical and morphological principles, acute viral hepatitis, acute concomitant viral hepatitis, bacterial infections and the liver, parasitic infections and the liver, mycotic infections and the liver, liver abscess, alcohol-induced liver damage, drug-induced liver damage, liver damage due to toxic substances, metabolic disorders and storage diseases, cholangitis and cholangiodysplasia, autoimmune hepatitis, chronic hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, benign hepatic lesions and tumours, malignant liver tumours, systemic diseases and the liver, cardiovascular diseases and the liver, therapy of liver diseases.- Abbreviations.- Subject Index.
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