Editor W.Y. Lau is a surgeon and professor of surgery at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and an Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. Professor Lau was President of the International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association from 2002 to 2004. He is also the book editor of Hilar Cholangiocarcinoma, Springer 2013, ISBN 978-94-[...].

The heavy use of diagrams which makes reading easier

Uses same structure in chapters, including anatomy, surgical approaches, development of the technology, conclusion and further reading

Serve as a reference book for the training and workshop in liver resection and liver transplantation

Applied Anatomy of the Liver.- Hemi-livers, Sections (Sectors), Segments.- Caudate Lobe.- Hepatic Hilar Plate System.- Anatomy of the Hepatic Hilar Region.- Intrahepatic Glissonian Triad: Anatomy Relevant to Liver Resection and Liver Transplantation.- Anatomy of the Abdominal Inferior Vena Cava and Its Suprarenal Branches.- Five Important Anatomical Structures in Right or Left Hepatectomy.- Anatomy Relevant to Liver -Transplantation.- Defining the Couinaud's Liver Segments Clinically.- The 3-Dimensional Body Visible System in Liver Surgery.- Low Central Venous Pressure in Liver Resection Surgery.- Hepatic Vascular Inflow and Outflow Occlusions.- Liver Transection Techniques and Haemostasis on the Raw Surface of the Remnant Liver.- Different Approaches to Liver Resection.- Laparoscopic Liver Surgery.- Laparoscopic Liver Resection Using the Lowering of Hilar Plate Approach.- Robotic Liver Surgery.- Liver Transplantation.- Associating Liver Partition and Portal Vein Ligation for Staged Hepatectomy (ALPPS).