**Meet the editor**

Dr. Tagaya is an Associate Professor of Surgery in Dokkyo Medical University Koshigaya Hospital. He is presently working as a leading laparoscopic and endoscopic surgeon, and has been accumulating an extremely vast experience with hepatobiliary and gastrointestinal operations, as well as adrenal and bariatric surgery. He also studied liver transplantation at Queensland Liver

Transplant Service in Brisbane, Australia from April 1994 to March 1996. This technique is useful for performing laparoscopic liver resection and vascular reconstruction. He is a recipient of a Video Award by the European Association for Endoscopic Surgery in 2007 with regards to double-balloon endoscopy. He is now investigating the technique of fluorescence imaging using indocyanine green during laparoscopic procedures and image overlay surgery as a navigation surgery.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Chapter 2 **Types of Liver Biopsy 23**

Teodor Streba

**Section 1 An Overview and Future Aspects of Liver Biopsy 1**

Claudia Randazzo, Anna Licata and Piero Luigi Almasio

Chapter 4 **Safety and Reliability Percutaneous Liver Biopsy Procedure in**

Chapter 5 **Risks and Benefits of Liver Biopsy in Focal Liver Disease 85**

Jean-François Cadranel and Jean-Baptiste Nousbaum

Anna Mania, Paweł Kemnitz, Magdalena Figlerowicz, Aldona

Letiția Adela Maria Streba, Eugen Florin Georgescu and Costin

**Children with Chronic Liver Diseases 75**

Woźniak and Wojciech Służewski

Chapter 6 **Current Trends in Liver Biopsy Indications for Chronic Liver Diseases 103**

Nobumi Tagaya, Nana Makino, Kazuyuki Saito, Takashi Okuyama,

Chapter 1 **Liver Biopsy - Indications, Procedures, Results 3**

Yoshitake Sugamata and Masatoshi Oya

Chapter 3 **Rethinking the Role of Liver Biopsy in the Era of Personalized Medicine 33** Teresa Casanovas Taltavull

**Section 2 Clinical Practice of Liver Biopsy 73**
