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By Randall G. Lee. 517 pp., illustrated. St. Louis, Mosby-Year Book, 1994. $115. ISBN 0-8016-2805-9.

A founding principle of the field of hepatology is the use of the liver biopsy as an aid to the diagnosis and management of hepatic diseases. Nevertheless, monographs dedicated to liver pathology are relative newcomers in the 50-year history of modern hepatology and hepatopathology. In recent years, however, there has been a rapid increase in the number of such textbooks, perhaps reflecting the explosion of understanding about hepatic biology and pathobiology and the morphologic interpretation thereof.

For the student or practitioner of hepatopathology, there have been three general categories of textbook. The first are the encyclopedic compendiums of hepatic pathology. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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