Benign and Malignant Biliary Tumors
Benign and Malignant Biliary Tumors Murli Krishna, MD 29.1 INTRODUCTION Biliary neoplasms and tumor-like lesions form a diverse group of lesions in the liver, and include tumors with characteristics similar…
Benign and Malignant Mesenchymal Tumors of the Liver
Benign and Malignant Mesenchymal Tumors of the Liver Rondell P. Graham, MBBS Andrew L. Folpe, MD 26.1 INTRODUCTION Mesenchymal tumors of the liver can be challenging because they are not…
Benign Hepatocellular Tumors
Benign Hepatocellular Tumors Dora Lam-Himlin, MD 27.1 FOCAL NODULAR HYPERPLASIA Definition Focal nodular hyperplasia is a benign hyperplastic reactive lesion composed of nodules of hepatocytes separated by fibrotic bands in…
Pediatric Liver Tumors
Pediatric Liver Tumors Saba Yasir, MBBS 25.1 HEPATOBLASTOMA Definition Hepatoblastomas are malignant epithelial neoplasms that are primary to the liver and show a range of hepatocellular differentiation, recapitulating various stages…
Transplantation Pathology
Transplantation Pathology Roger K. Moreira, MD Douglas A. Simonetto, MD 20.1 OVERVIEW Chronic liver disease is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. In the United States alone, nearly…
Liver Involvement in Systemic Diseases
Liver Involvement in Systemic Diseases Lizhi Zhang, MD 19.1 INTRODUCTION Just as primary liver disease can affect other organ systems in the body, the liver may be affected in many…
Cytopathology of the Liver
Cytopathology of the Liver Yajue Huang, MD Andrea Jones, MD Michael Rivera, MD 22.1 INTRODUCTION Fine needle aspiration (FNA) is a commonly used approach to determine the nature of a…
Imaging of Liver Tumors
Imaging of Liver Tumors Michael L. Wells, MD Sudhakar K. Venkatesh, MD Radiologic evaluation represents a critical component of liver tumor detection and characterization. After discovery of a liver mass,…
Fatty Liver Disease: Alcoholic and Nonalcoholic
Fatty Liver Disease: Alcoholic and Nonalcoholic Maxwell L. Smith, MD 16.1 INTRODUCTION This chapter covers the spectrum of fatty liver disease from sim-ple steatosis to severely active steatohepatitis. The chapter…
Cholestatic Liver Disease and Biliary Tract Disease
Cholestatic Liver Disease and Biliary Tract Disease Jason Lewis, MD 13.1 INTRODUCTION Cholestasis is defined as impaired bile flow. It may be secondary to either hepatocyte abnormalities or compromise of…
