Key Features

Unique "visual index" at the beginning of the book references the exact chapter and specific page needed for in-depth diagnostic guidance.

TABLE OF CONTENTS 

SECTION I: BASIC CONCEPTS IN LIVER PATHOLOGY
1 Microscopic Anatomy, Basic Terms, and Elemental Lesions

SECTION II: CLINICAL, LABORATORY, AND RADIOLOGIC FEATURES OF LIVER DISEASE
2 Clinical Features of Liver Disease
3 Laboratory Tests in Liver Disease
4 Investigative Imaging of the Liver

SECTION III: LIVER DISEASES OF CHILDHOOD
5 Liver Diseases of Childhood

SECTION IV: METABOLIC DISEASES OF THE LIVER
6 Medical Genetics and Biochemistry in Diagnosis and Management
7 Histologic Patterns of Metabolic Liver Diseases
8 Liver in Wilson Disease
9 Liver Disease in Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency
10 Liver Disease in Cystic Fibrosis
11 Liver Disease in Iron Overload
12 Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

SECTION V: INFECTIOUS DISEASES OF THE LIVER
13 Acute Viral Hepatitis
14 Hepatitis B
15 Hepatitis C
16 Chronic Hepatitis: Grading and Staging
17 Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection of the Liver
18 Nonviral Infections of the Liver

SECTION VI: GRANULOMATOUS DISEASES OF THE LIVER
19 Hepatic Granulomas: Differential Diagnosis
20 Hepatic Sarcoidosis

SECTION VII: AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS
21 Autoimmune Hepatitis and Overlap Syndromes

SECTION VIII: DRUG- AND TOXIN-INDUCED LIVER INJURY
22 Metabolism of Drugs and Xenobiotics
23 Liver Injury Due to Drugs and Herbal Agents
24 Alcohol-Induced Liver Disease

SECTION IX: DISORDERS OF THE BILE DUCTS, BILE FORMATION, AND SECRETION
25 Fibrocystic Liver Diseases
26 Primary Biliary Cholangitis
27 Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis
28 Loss of Intrahepatic Bile Ducts
29A Intrahepatic Cholestasis: Molecular Physiology of Bile Formation and Secretion
29B Intrahepatic Cholestasis: Diseases of Bile Formation and Secretion

SECTION X: VASCULAR DISORDERS OF THE LIVER
30 Vascular Disorders of the Liver

SECTION XI: TUMORS AND TUMOR-LIKE LESIONS OF THE LIVER
31 Premalignant and Early Malignant Hepatocellular Lesions in Chronic Hepatitis/Cirrhosis
32 Benign Hepatocellular Tumors
33 Hepatocellular Carcinoma
34 Benign and Malignant Tumors of Bile Ducts
35 Liver Tumors of Childhood
36 Miscellaneous Liver Tumors and Tumor-like Lesions

SECTION XII: LIVER TRANSPLANTATION
37 Clinical Aspects of Liver Transplantation
38 Pathology of Liver Transplantation

SECTION XIII: EVOLVING CONCEPTS IN LIVER PATHOLOGY
39 Biphenotypic Primary Liver Carcinoma
40 Regression of Liver Fibrosis: From Myth to Reality
41 Cirrhosis: A Term in Need of a Makeover

Author Information

By Romil Saxena, MD, FRCPath, Indiana University School of Medicine; Indianapolis, IN