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Edited by Neil Kaplowitz. 732 pp., illustrated. Baltimore, Williams and Wilkins, 1992. $105. ISBN 0-683-04528-8.

This book neatly fills a niche among liver textbooks. It is designed to reach a wide audience of physicians in training, internists, and gastroenterologists. It is not meant to compete with weighty, multiauthored reference works, of which several excellent ones can be recommended. It does not offer the consistent style and approach of a single-authored textbook, such as Sherlock's classic Diseases of the Liver and Biliary System (9th ed. Boston: Blackwell Scientific, 1993), with its very personal approach to liver diseases. It combines the strengths of chapters written by authorities with a conscious effort to avoid being encyclopedic. This approach . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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