Diseases of the Liver, Pancreas and biliary system affect a substantial proportion of the worlds population and involve doctors and health care workers across many disciplines. Many of these diseases produce great misery and distress and are economically important requiring much time off work. The aim of this series was to provide an overview of these diseases and enable the busy clinician to keep abreast of advances in diagnosis and management of not only the common but also the rarer, but none the less important, conditions
