Primary Carcinoma of the Liver: A Study in Incidence, Clinical Manifestations, Pathology and Ætiology

Abstract

This study is based on extensive clinical and pathological experience with hepatic cancer in the male Bantu in South Africa, supplemented by investigation of many case records of cases occurring in this area as well as by a diligent and rather complete survey of the world literature on this subject. The result is a well-organized study from which information about hepatic carcinoma can rapidly be obtained. Good illustrations assist in the presentation. The book has four parts. The first deals with the geographical and racial distribution of hepatic cancer. It reveals that this disease is commonest among the Bantu tribe in South Africa, less common in the Oriental races, but here still of much higher incidence than in Western people. The second part deals with clinical manifestations. Frank, acute abdominal, febrile, occult, and metastatic forms are well-described. Little optimism is exhibited concerning therapy. The third part contains pathological description, and