Liver Growth And Repair
by A. Strain /
2012 / English / PDF
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Nelson Fausto The Greek myth of Prometheus with its picture of a vulture feasting on its chained victim has traditionally provided a visual image of liver regeneration. It is a powerful and frightening represent at ion but if one were to substitute the vulture by a surgeon and Prometheus by a patient laying on a properly prepared operating table, the out come of the procedure would not differ significantly from that described by Greek poets. Yet few of us who work in the field have stopped long enough to ask where this myth originated. Did the poet observe a case of liver regeneration in a human being?
