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Edited by Neil McIntyre, Jean-Pierre Benhamou, Johannes Bircher, Mario Rizzetto, and Juan Rodes. 1550 pp. in two volumes, illustrated. New York, Oxford University Press, 1991. $250. ISBN 0-19-261968-3.

The publication of this two-volume textbook of hepatology attests to the rapidly expanding body of knowledge of liver function and dysfunction. This new textbook differs from others on liver disease in its organization, scope, and size. In contrast to others, such as those edited by Schiff and Schiff (Diseases of the Liver. 7th ed. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1993) and Zakim and Boyer (Hepatology: A Textbook of Liver Disease. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, 1990), which include 44 and 61 chapters, respectively, the Oxford Textbook of Clinical Hepatology has 31 sections. These, in turn, are divided into 115 subsections (chapters) and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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