Basic anatomy of the liver: Clinical Liver Disease Debuts New Series of Supplement Issues

Clinical Liver Disease Debuts New Series of Supplement Issues 

By Ann Haran, AASLD Staff

Clinical Liver Disease (CLD) recently launched the first installment of a new series of thematic supplement issues. Focusing on pathology, the supplement will join three newly commissioned articles with relevant repurposed content from past and future issues of CLD. In order to keep CLD as timely as possible, the editorial team felt it was important to continually regroup and augment materials for the reader’s benefit.

“Other issues of CLD focus on a specific disease topic,” explains supplement Guest Editor Raouf E. Nakhleh, MD, FCAP, who also serves on CLD’s Editorial Board. “The supplement issues will not be grouped by disease topic; rather, they are intended to help as a reference point. We felt it was necessary to have supplements for the sake of completeness.” Editor-in-Chief Michael R. Lucey, MD, adds “having supplements allows us to maintain frequency of publication, and also allows us to address topics that would not get a full issue of their own but appear in various issues.

Having a pathology supplement also allowed us to publish three valuable articles describing normal anatomy and histology of the liver that otherwise would not have been written.” While the supplement issues do provide an opportunity for new materials to be written, they will also gather previously published articles under a different thematic title. As new issues of the journal are published, articles from these new issues will be used to populate previously published supplements.

The pathology supplement begins with an article on the basic anatomy of the liver, then goes on to explain its histology. “We wanted readers to be able to comprehend the normal structures and tools used in pathology,” explains Dr. Nakhleh, “so that any hepatologist or trainee with an interest in liver disease will be able to develop a basic understanding of what we, as pathologists, do every day.” Dr. Lucey points out that trainees often find it challenging to understand pathology, and also expects mid-level providers, such as nurse practitioners and physician assistants, who do not have a great deal of training in pathology to find the supplement quite useful. The supplement may also provide a refresher for people who have been trained in pathology, but do not often have the opportunity to practice that knowledge.

With future supplements being planned in other topics, such as surgery of the liver and a supplement in Spanish, the editors are continuously brainstorming ways to present users with complete, timely information in the most organized manner possible. “We want enough information in this journal so that the reader can go to one page and find exactly what he is looking for,” emphasizes Dr. Nakhleh. “Ultimately, our goal is to cover everything in hepatology in a way that will allow users to understand how medicine works in relation to liver disease.”

Clinical Liver Disease

Normal liver anatomy (pages S1–S3)
Lena Sibulesky
Article first published online: 29 MAR 2013 | DOI: 10.1002/cld.124
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Microscopic anatomy of the liver (pages S4–S7) 
Murli Krishna
Article first published online: 29 MAR 2013 | DOI: 10.1002/cld.147
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Role of special stains in diagnostic liver pathology (pages S8–S10)
Murli Krishna
Article first published online: 29 MAR 2013 | DOI: 10.1002/cld.148
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