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Volume 331:410-411 August 11, 1994 Number 6
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Infants and Children
Liver Disease in Children

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Edited by Frederick J. Suchy. 1013 pp., illustrated. St. Louis, Mosby, 1994. $149. ISBN 1-55664-377-2.

Hepatology has enjoyed remarkable advances in the past 10 to 15 years because of tremendous progress in diagnostic capabilities, knowledge of the molecular basis of liver disease, and medical and surgical therapies. Somewhat less obvious but equally profound progress has been made against the hepatobiliary disorders of childhood. In addition, attempts continue to adapt and extrapolate technologic advances in treating adults to the special circumstances of infants and children. Thus, pediatric hepatology has emerged as an established subspecialty. The book under review is a compendium of the knowledge base and the ongoing investigations in this new subspecialty.

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