Seminars in Liver Disease

Issue 04 · Volume 3 · November 1983 DOI: 10.1055/s-002-9971

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

265

McIntyre, Neil: The Limitations of Conventional Liver Function Tests

275

Bircher, Johannes: Quantitative Assessment of Deranged Hepatic Function: A Missed Opportunity?

285

Larrey, Dominique; Branch, Robert A.: Clearance by the Liver: Current Concepts in Understanding the Hepatic Disposition of Drugs

298

Pappas, S. Chris; Jones, E. Anthony: Methods for Assessing Hepatic Encephalopathy

308

Okuda, Kunio; Tsuchiya, Yukihiro; Saotome, Naoki; Ohnishi, Kunihiko: How to Investigate Cholestasis: Utility of Ultrasound as the First Imaging Study

318

Baker, Alfred L.; Kotake, Alvin N.; Schoeller, Dale A.: Clinical Utility of Breath Tests for the Assessment of Hepatic Function

330

Berry, William; Reichen, Juerg: Bile Acid Metabolism: Its Relation to Clinical Disease

341

Küpfer, Adrian; Preisig, Rudolf: Inherited Defects of Hepatic Drug Metabolism