Techniques in Liver Surgery

Download or read book Techniques in Liver Surgery written by Alighieri Mazziotti and published by Greenwich Medical Media. This book was released on 1997-01-07 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Techniques in Liver Surgery is a practical textbook giving a clear, step-by-step account of the many techniques now used in liver surgery, ranging from the standard approaches to liver resection and transplantation, through to advanced procedures such as major liver resections using hypothermic perfusion, auxi liary liver transplantation and transplantation from living related donors. In addition to specific techniques, the book provides detailed coverage of the surgical anatomy of the liver, the basic approaches to liver surgery and the history of the specialty itself. Throughout, the book is superbly illustrated with detailed colour line drawings, intraoperative photographs and radiological images, providing an invaluable source of information on the surgical anatomy of the liver and all of the common and less common techniques that are likely to be encountered by the hepatobiliary surgeon, both in training and in practice.