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 first-descriptors 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)

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 (A-SEN)
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
Autoimmune hepatitis
Cholangitis and cholangiodysplasia
Chronic hepatitis
Liver cirrhosis
Benign hepatic lesions and tumours
Malignant liver tumours
Systemic diseases and the liver
Cardiovascular diseases and the liver
Treatment of liver diseases.