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This book covers major knowledge and recent advance regarding portal vein thrombosis. Portal vein thrombosis, a potentially life-threatening vascular disorder of the liver, refers to the development of thrombosis within main portal vein trunk and intrahepatic portal vein branches with or without splenic and mesenteric veins. In patients with acute portal vein thrombosis, if a thrombus extends into the mesenteric veins, there is a risk of intestinal ischemia and necrosis; in patients with chronic portal vein thrombosis, portal hypertension and its complications develop. The book includes chapters on the topics of epidemiology, risk factors, diagnosis, and prognostic impact, pharmacological, interventional with surgical treatment of this disease. Concepts of early diagnosis of portal vein thrombosis and extensive assessment of its severity are fully introduced. The book is beneficial for physicians to establish standard treatment strategy, for researchers to launch creative clinical and experimental studies.

Der Band „Leber, Gallenwege und Pankreas“ enthält die Pathologie der Leber, der intra- und extrahepatischen Gallenwege, der Gallenblase und des Pankreas. Die einzelnen Beiträge sind von renommierten Pathologen und Klinikern verfasst und haben zum Ziel, die Pathologie der häufigen, aber auch der seltenen Erkrankungen unter Einbeziehung von Epidemiologie, Ätiologie, Pathogenese, Genetik und Klinik darzustellen. Der praktizierende Pathologe erhält damit ein Nachschlagewerk, das ihn schnell und eingehend diagnostisch berät. Da die Beiträge über die Morphologie hinaus auch über den relevanten klinischen Befund informieren, ist dieses Buch nicht nur für Fachärzte für Pathologie, sondern auch für Ärzte in der Weiterbildung zum Pathologen, für Hepatologen, Gastroenterologen, Pankreatologen und Viszeralchirurgen sehr attraktiv.

Portal hypertension is a relatively common condition, the complications of which are frequently life threatening. Patients with portal hypertension represent an important por­ tion of the daily clinical work of abdominal radiologists, gastroenterologists and abdominal surgeons. During the past two decades the development of new radiological devices and of new percutaneous image-guided treatment methods has resulted in fundamental changes in the clinical management of patients with portal hypertension. During the same period tremen­ dous progress was achieved in the visualization of the numerous morphological and func­ tional changes observed in patients with portal hypertension, due to the clinical introduc­ tion of the new cross-sectional imaging methods: ultrasonography, computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. I am very grateful to Prof. Plinio Rossi, an internationally recognized leader in the field of interventional radiology, for accepting the challenging task of compiling and presenting in a structured way the numerous facts and data that have become available during the past few years in this rapidly developing field. The editor has been inspired and successful in his selection of the impressive group of international experts that has contributed to many chapters of this volume.