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Edited by Norman Gitlin. 299 pp., illustrated. New York, Churchill Livingstone, 1997. $100. ISBN 0-443-05546-7.

With the current plethora of comprehensive textbooks on liver disease, the question whether another book of this type is needed should be addressed. Gitlin's book, The Liver and Systemic Disease, is not an original concept, since there is already at least one similar book available. Nevertheless, in its favor, this textbook focuses on a specialty but is also comprehensive, and so it will be useful not only to hepatologists but also to all clinicians involved in treating disorders complicated by hepatic abnormalities.

The book is attractively produced. The histologic photographs are very clear and useful. In Wilcox's chapter on AIDS, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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