Preface Liver Disease Symptoms

Recent advances in hepatology have made it even more essential to be familiar with the clinical sings and pathology of Liver Disease.The correct managment of patients is becoming increasingly dependent on a precise diagnosis. Our aim in this Atlas has been to compile an up-to-date and comprehensive collection of the physical signs, pathology and investi-gations of liver disease. This format has permitted the collection of a much larger number of high quality colour photographs than is normally possible in standard textbooke. However the Atlas should be used as a companion to the standard texbooks on the subject. For this reason the legends to the pictures have been ruthlessly pruned to keep them short; the pictures should speak for themselves. The book begins with a general chapter on the examination of the liver and the signs of liver disease. Subsequent chapters deal with the major groups of diseases affecting the liver, with their special signs.