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Volume 342:827 March 16, 2000 Number 11
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Medical Management of Liver Disease

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Edited by Edward L. Krawitt. 636 pp., illustrated. New York, Marcel Dekker, 1999. $185. ISBN 0-8247-1968-9.

Knowledge of liver disease has increased enormously in the past few years and has changed both the diagnosis and the treatment of hepatic disorders. Medical treatments of viral hepatitis and portal hypertension are among the important advances of the past decade in this field. This progress clearly justifies the publication of Medical Management of Liver Disease, and the editor is to be congratulated on his initiative.

The book has 10 parts, which are divided into a total of 44 chapters written by experts who are mainly from the United States but also from Canada, Brazil, France, Germany, and Denmark. All . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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