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edited by Willis C. Maddrey, MD, Eugene R. Schiff, MD, and Michael F. Sorrell, MD, 509 pp, with illus, ISBN 0-7817-2039-7, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2000.

Arch Surg. 2001;136:1208-1209.

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The current version of Transplantation of the Liver is its third and appropriately chronicles the recent advances made in the arena of clinical liver transplantation. Willis Maddrey, MD, Michael Sorrell, MD, and Eugene Schiff, MD, edited the textbook. The contributors are an international group of leaders in the field of liver transplantation. The text begins with a short look into the most recent advances and quickly moves to a look at the future of liver transplantation. Topics such as selection of the transplant patient, prognostic models for the timing of transplantation, and operative procedures are well covered in the beginning of the book.

Each chapter is organized into short sections with bold-type graphs and charts that are easy to read. Headings are in large print and are also easy to read. Most of the charts and tables are located on the same page as the text, which allows the reader . . . [Full Text of this Article]