Mark Davenport – Surgery of the Liver Bile Ducts and Pancreas in Children (2017)

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The first edition of this book was published in 1991 at an
auspicious time in the paediatric hepatobiliary field, coming
at the end of a decade which had seen liver transplantation
accepted as more than just a last desperate measure to try
and cheat inevitable demise. Our own independent transplant
programme in children at Kings had begun just a couple
of years before with Sir Roy Calne’s seminal programme
in Cambridge as its mentor. One chapter was devoted to
the subject in that first edition. This has now evolved into
12 interconnected ones in the third edition; led off by the
grandfather of transplantation, Thomas Starzl, and which
truly reflects the current complexity, growth and evolution.
The subject of much of the remainder of this edition will
be familiar to surgeons the world over, and there is due
prominence given to biliary atresia, choledochal malformation,
portal hypertension and liver tumours – the four
key areas in this field. Major advances, both surgical and
scientific, have been made in all of these areas since the last
edition and are fully incorporated. As paediatric surgeons
delve more deeply within the liver, bile ducts and pancreas,
it is important to recognise that this field is developing
into a subspeciality within paediatric surgery that merits
further training. Progress in these areas and maintenance
of the highest clinical standards will only be achieved by
those among paediatric surgeons who choose to focus their
professional activities in the area of hepatobiliary surgery.
The second edition broadened not only the subject matter
to include the pancreas, but also the breadth of its international
contributors. The current editors from the United
Kingdom and the United States continue with this theme,
and contributors were chosen with an international audience
in mind. Most certainly have an Anglo-American
heritage, but there are experts from European and Japanese
backgrounds to reflect these perspectives. It is a small surgical
specialty after all, but this also means that the subject
can transcend national barriers and, as is demonstrably
obvious with much of paediatric surgery, have an international
outlook.