TIMOTHY M. PAWLIK

With its emphasis on quick-access, easy-to-digest content, Mulholland & Greenfield’s Surgery: Scientific Principles and Practice, Eighth Edition, is a gold-standard text for today’s residents and practicing surgeons. Edited by Drs. Justin B. Dimick, Hasan B. Alam, Timothy M. Pawlik, Mary Hawn, Julie Ann Sosa, and new co-editor Dr. Dawn M. Coleman, it balances scientific advances with clinical practice, reflecting rapid changes, new technologies, and innovative techniques in current surgical care. Covers general scientific principles such as inflammation, shock, nutrition, pain management, and much more, followed by surgical practice chapters arranged by organ system Features over 2000 full-color illustrations, anatomic drawings, and intraoperative photographs that visually support the text and make complex concepts easier to grasp Includes Key Points at the start of every chapter, with corresponding numbers in the chapter margins for quick reference Lists decision-making algorithms in the front of the book for fast reference

This issue of Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America is devoted to "Biliary Tract and Primary Liver Tumors" and is edited by Timothy Pawlik, MD, of the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Expert authors in this issue review this topic in articles such as: Epidemiology and Risk Factors of Biliary Tract Tumors and Primary Liver Tumors; Imaging of the Patient with a Biliary Tract or Primary Liver Tumor; Percutaneous and Endoscopic Approaches to Biliary Tract Tumors and Primary Liver Tumors; Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma; Hilar Cholangiocarcinoma; Distal Cholangiocarcinoma; Hepatocellular Carcinoma; Staging of Biliary Tract and Primary Liver Tumors; Intra-arterial Therapies: Primary Liver Tumors; Radiotherapy: Primary Liver Tumors; Systemic and Targeted Therapy; and Palliation: Treating Patients with Inoperable Biliary Tract and Primary Liver Tumors.