**Meet the editor**

Dr. Luis Rodrigo, MD, is actually an Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the University of Oviedo (Spain). He has been the chief of Gastroenterology Service at the HUCA Hospital in Oviedo, for more than 40 years. He obtained the PhD degree in 1975 and has developed a long teaching and research career. He has published a total of 572 scientific papers, 290 written in English and the rest in

Spanish. He has participated as the main investigator in a total of 45 clinical trials and has directed 40 doctoral theses. He has contributed actively to the formation of around 100 specialists in gastroenterology working in his hospital and other hospitals in Spain and abroad. He has written around 35 chapters in books of several subjects and has been the editor of 21 books in his specialty and related diseases.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Section 1 Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease 1**

Arias-Loste and Javier Crespo

**Section 2 Imaging Evaluation of the Liver 55**

**Liver Disease 3**

Kurt Grüngreiff

**Indications 73**

Ali Ibrahim Yahya

**Section 3 Hepatic Trauma 95**

Chapter 5 **Hepatic Trauma 97**

Chapter 1 **Diagnosis and Characterization of Non-Alcoholic Fatty**

Chapter 2 **Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, Diabetes Mellitus, and Zinc/ Zinc Transporters: Is there a Connection? 43**

Chapter 3 **Imaging Evaluation of Liver Tumors in Pediatric Patients 57** Chengzhan Zhu, Bingzi Dong and Qian Dong

Chapter 4 **Intraoperative Ultrasound of the Liver: Actual Status and**

Adrian Bartoș, Ioana Iancu, Caius Breazu and Dana Bartoș

Paula Iruzubieta, Marta González, Joaquín Cabezas, María Teresa
