title: [Guidelines in surgery of the liver and bile ducts].
abstract: The surgery of biliary ducts and malignant liver tumors is formulated illustratively in guidelines in order to assist the physician as well as the uninformed patient in their orientation concerning diagnostic, therapeutic and prognostic questions. Special attention is paid to diagnostics, which is based on both rational and empirical verified arguments. Moreover, the examples presented in this study show that guidelines can only be formulated if extensive verified knowledge exists; for rare diseases and those about which little is yet known guidelines cannot (yet) be formulated.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Kinderchirurgie mit Poliklinik, Chirurgische Klinik Tübingen.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Schweizer
mesh_terms: D001649:Bile Duct Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011379:Prognosis; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care
vernacular_title: Leitlinien in der Chirurgie der Leber- und Gallenwege.