Editorial: A glimpse of hepato-biliary-pancreatic surgery in China

摘要

This issue of Chinese Mechical Joural (CMJ) focuses on many aspects of hepato-biliary-pancreatic surgery, which represent some of the latest developments of general surgery in China. The treatment of hepato-biliary disease is specially sig- Nificant in China because of the prevaluence of viral infection Of the liver and the consequences of delayed complications. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, known as non-A, non-B Hepatitis, is closely related to the later development of liver Cirrhosis and primary hepatic cell carcinoma.