Balancing basic science with information on everyday clinical practice, Blumgart’s Surgery of the Liver, Biliary Tract and Pancreas, 7th Edition, provides you with expert guidance and advances in the field so you can offer patients the most optimal diagnostic and surgical care. In two convenient volumes, Dr. William Jarnagin and his team of internationally recognized surgeons cover exactly what you need to know, including advances in diagnostic and surgical techniques, minimally invasive surgeries, new interventional diagnostic techniques, and all relevant diseases. This comprehensive, practical reference is designed to help you choose and perform the most appropriate procedures that will minimize inpatient hospital time, curtail costs, and reduce overall recovery time for your patients.

• Presents cutting-edge guidance on pathology, diagnostics, surgery and non-operative intervention of the liver, biliary tract, and pancreas in one highly regarded, authoritative reference.
• Covers all surgical approaches, both open and minimally invasive.
• Considers all worldwide opinions and approaches to management, and includes key data on surgical outcomes to better inform clinical decision-making.
• Contains 161 chapters with updated references and additional figures―more than 1,500 illustrations in all. The imaging section has been reorganized to reflect a disease-based approach.
• Includes new and expanded sections on advances in molecular characterization of benign and malignant HPB diseases, perioperative management, interventional techniques, minimally invasive surgery and robotics, and therapeutic advances for malignant disease.
• Features a section dedicated entirely to operative technique, plus a new historical chapter authored by Professor Jacques Belghitti: “Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery: Historical Perspective.”

Contents

۱. Embryologic development of the liver, biliary tract, and pancreas
۲. Surgical and radiologic anatomy of the liver, biliary tract, and pancreas
۳. Pancreatic physiology and functional assessment
۴. Assessment of hepatic function: Implications for perioperative outcome and recovery
۵. Liver blood flow: Physiology, measurement, and clinical relevance
۶. Liver regeneration: Mechanisms and clinical relevance
۷. Liver fibrogenesis: Mechanisms and clinical relevance
۸. Bile secretion and pathophysiology of biliary tract obstruction
۹. Molecular and cell biology of hepatopancreatobiliary disease: Introduction and basic principles
۹. Molecular and cell biology of liver carcinogenesis and hepatitis
۹. Advances in the molecular characterization of liver tumors
۹. Advances in the molecular characterization of pancreatic cancer and pre-malignant lesions
۹. Advances in the molecular characterization of biliary tract and gallbladder cancer
۱۰. Fundamentals of liver and pancreas immunology
۱۱. Infections in hepatic, biliary, and pancreatic surgery
۱۲. Clinical investigation of hepatopancreatobiliary and pancreatic disease
۱۳. Cross-sectional imaging of liver, biliary, and pancreatic disease: Introduction and basic principles
۱۴. Imaging features of benign and malignant liver tumors and cysts
۱۵. Imaging features of metastatic liver cancer
۱۶. Imaging features of gallbladder and biliary tract disease
۱۷. Imaging features of benign and malignant pancreatic disease
۱۸. The role of nuclear medicine in diagnosis and management of hepatopancreatobiliary diseases
۱۹. Emerging techniques in diagnostic imaging
۲۰. Direct cholangiography: Approaches, techniques, and current role
۲۱. Diagnostic angiography in hepatobiliary and pancreatic disease: Indications
۲۲. Endoscopic ultrasound of the biliary tract and pancreas
۲۳. Image-guided liver biopsy
۲۴. Intraoperative diagnostic techniques
۲۵. Liver and pancreatic surgery: Intraoperative management
۲۶. Nutrition and perioperative critical care in the hepatopancreatobiliary surgery patient
۲۷. Enhanced recovery programs in hepatobiliary surgery
۲۸. Postoperative complications requiring intervention: Diagnosis and management
۲۹. The impact of hepatobiliary interventions on health and quality of life and health
۳۰. Interventional endoscopy for biliary tract disease: Technical aspects

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