Textbook
- Completely revised, updated and enlarged
- Close and continuous relation between pathomorphology, function and clinic
- Further improvements in content, systematology, didactics and colour design
- Numerous, sometimes unusual, but clinically proved suggestions ('tips and tricks') resulting from the author’s practical experience

Atlas
- A total number of 530 figures in colour and 320 tables in colour - an hepatological atlas which is unique in form, extent and presentation

Manual
- About 7,000 quoted publications
- Some 1,500 cited first-descriptors of therapy procedures, methods, medical techniques and invasive measures
- A comprehensive index containing more than 3,000 terms and about 12,000 cited reference pages
- Register of abbreviations