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Edited by Constantine C. Karaliotas, Christoph E. Broelsch, and Nagy A. Habib
638 pp, $259
Athens, Greece, Springer-Verlag/Wien 2007
ISBN-13 978-3-2114-9275-8

JAMA. 2008;299(10):1196-1197.

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The preface to Liver and Biliary Tract Surgery indicates that the volume was commissioned by the Executive Committee of the Hellenic Surgical Society at the time of the 25th Panhellenic Congress of Surgery to honor the 79th anniversary of the society. The stated reason for printing the text in English was so that it might be read outside Greece.

The book is divided into 4 sections. With the exception of the first chapter on embryology and anatomy of the biliary tract, which was written cooperatively by 2 authors from North America, all of the other authors of the succeeding 47 chapters are from Greek academic medical centers, a German academic medical center (University Hospital Essen), or the Hammersmith Hospital at Imperial College, London.

Section 1 presents the intricacies of biliary ultrasound and endoscopic retrograde pancreatography (ERCP) as well as the diseases of the biliary and pancreatic systems that a hepatobiliary . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Martin S. Litwin, MD, Reviewer
Department of Surgery
Tulane Medical School
New Orleans, Louisiana
mlitwin@tulane.edu