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Microscopic anatomy, basic terms, and elemental lesions
Clinical features of liver disease
Laboratory tests in liver disease
Investigative imaging of the liver
Liver diseases of childhood
Medical genetics and biochemistry in diagnosis and management
Histologic patterns of metabolic liver diseases
Liver in Wilson disease
Liver disease in alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency
Liver disease in cystic fibrosis
Liver disease in iron overload
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
Acute viral hepatitis
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis c
Chronic hepatitis : grading and staging
Human immunodeficiency virus infection of the liver
Nonviral infections of the liver
Hepatic granulomas : differential diagnosis
Hepatic sarcoidosis
Autoimmune hepatitis and overlap syndromes
Metabolism of drugs and xenobiotics
Liver injury due to drugs and herbal agents
Alcohol-induced liver disease
Fibrocystic liver diseases
Primary biliary cholangitis
Primary sclerosing cholangitis
Loss of intrahepatic bile ducts
Intrahepatic cholestasis
Vascular disorders of the liver
Premalignant and early malignant hepatocellular lesions in chronic hepatitis/cirrhosis
Benign hepatocellular tumors
Hepatocellular carcinoma
Benign and malignant tumors of bile ducts
Liver tumors of childhood
Miscellaneous liver tumors and tumor-like lesions
Clinical aspects of liver transplantation
Pathology of liver transplantation
Biphenotypic primary liver carcinoma
Regression of liver fibrosis : from myth to reality
Cirrhosis : a term in need of a makeover

A volume in the popular Pattern Recognition Series, Practical Hepatic Pathology: A Diagnostic Approach features completely updated and reorganized content, resulting in a truly practical guide to understanding liver pathology. Dr. Romil Saxena presents interpretation of liver biopsies according to a pattern-based approach that begins with recognition of the predominant histological pattern of injury, followed by identification of secondary features and appropriate work-up that lead you away from pitfalls to the best diagnosis