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BOOK REVIEW
The Liver and Systemic Disease
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The Liver and Systemic Disease. Gitlin N. (Pp 300; illustrated; £95.00.) Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 1997. ISBN 0-443-05546-7.
All hepatologists and right-thinking physicians are well aware that the liver is not only the largest internal organ but also the most important. In systemic diseases, the liver is often affected and liver function disturbed; conversely, primary liver disease can affect every other organ system. While most of the major medical and hepatological textbooks have sections on the liver in systemic disease, …