Welcome to Hepatobiliary & Pancreatic Diseases International Hepatobiliary & Pancreatic Diseases International (ISSN 1499-3872 / CN 33-1391/R) is a journal published bimonthly in the English language by the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China. It publishes peer-reviewed original papers, reviews and editorials concerned with clinical practice and research in the fields of hepatobiliary and pancreatic diseases. Papers cover the medical, surgical, radiological, pathological, biochemical, physiological and historical aspects of the subject areas under the headings Liver, Biliary, Pancreas, Transplantation, Editorials, Review Articles, New Techniques, Clinical Images, Viewpoints and Letters to the Editor. It also deals with the basic sciences and experimental work. The journal is abstracted and indexed in SCI-E, IM/MEDLINE, EMBASE/EM, CA, Scopus, ScienceDirect, CSCD, etc.Full-text articles are available at Elsevier Science.from 2011.