Hepatobiliary Surgery in Childhood (Paperback)

In the last ten years, developments in the field of haemostasis and the findings in functional liver anatomy, as well as new facts in immunology, histochemistry and molecular biology have all affected the area of hepatobiliary surgery in childhood. This work presents new aspects of surgical liver anatomy, haemostasis, management of hepatic traumata, surgical techniques in benign and malignant liver tumours, and surgical strategy in cases of bile duct atresias. In the final chapter, the authors discuss the perspectives of liver transplantation.In favour of a functional view and in a practice-related manner, the usual schematic systematization was intentionally dispensed with. Dealing with often controversial problems and reporting different perspectives and experiences, the book nevertheless succeeds in achieving a consensus in each chapter and thus fills a gap in the scientific literature in the field.