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Many advances in our knowledge about liver disease have followed the wider use of liver biopsy, and development of techniques such as ultrasonography, magnetic resonance and computed tomography. Nevertheless, blood tests remain the first investigations in the assessment of liver dysfunction. None of the tests is entirely specific, and interpretation usually depends on examination of a constellation of results together with the clinical presentation. There is no true ‘liver function test’, but merely abnormal serum biochemistry which could be explained by liver disease.

The original version of this chapter was revised. An erratum to this chapter can be found at 10.1007/978-3-319-53786-3_17

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Bateson, M.C., Bouchier, I.A.D. (2017). Liver Biochemistry. In: Clinical Investigations in Gastroenterology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53786-3_12

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