Liver Disease and Laboratoy Medicine

Liver Disease and Laboratory Medicine

I. McFarlane, A. Bomford and R. Sherwood. London: ACB Ventura Publications. 2000. ISBN 0-902429-10-8. 176 pp. 24.00.

This book continues the series of Ventura Publications produced by the Association of Clinical Biochemists. The authors are all recognised (and recognisable nice to have a picture of each on the cover) experts in the field. This is not a technical manual on `how to' but is intended as an interpretative guide to the laboratory diagnosis and monitoring of liver disease.

I applaud the first sentence of the preface: `Liver disease impacts virtually all areas of the clinical laboratory.' All too often, clinical …