Thomas S. Helling MD is currently tenured Professor of Surgery at the University of Mississippi Medical Center and School of Medicine. Doctor Helling is in full time clinical practice. He has been interested and involved in hepato-biliary surgery for his entire career, spanning almost 40 years. He worked with Thomas Starzl MD in his fellowship in transplantation at the University of Colorado in 1978-79. Doctor Helling is a member of a number of prestigious surgical organizations including the American College of Surgeons, the Southern Surgical Society, the American Surgical Association, and the Americas Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association.

Daniel Azoulay MD PhD is an experienced liver surgeon and full-time faculty at the Hôpital PAUL BROUSSE in Paris and Professor of Surgery at the University of Paris. He spent 21 productive years with Professor Henri Bismuth at the Centre Hépato-Biliaire of the Hôpital Paul Brousse. Doctor Azoulay has published over 400 scientific articles and authored one book with Springer (Surgery of the Inferior Vena Cava) as well as more than 10 book chapters.

Describes in a unique way the evolution of liver surgery, liver anatomy, and liver physiology

Highlights pioneers who, through trials and errors, developed techniques to allow safe surgical intervention in liver diseases and disorders

Offers, through the authors' experience and legacy, important lessons for medical students and surgical trainees of all countries