EFSUMB-European Course Book Editor: Christoph F. Dietrich Ultrasound of the liver Christoph F. Dietrich, Carla Serra, Maciej Jedrzejczyk University of Bologna. Department of Diagnostic Imaging, 2nd Medical Faculty of arsaw Medical University Acknowledgment: The authors thank Lucas Greiner, Julie Walton, loan Sporea, Christian Nolsoe and Norbert Gritzmann for peer review of the manuscriptEFSUMB – European Course Book Editor: Christoph F. Dietrich Ultrasound of the liver Christoph F. Dietrich, Carla Serra 2 , Maciej Jedrzejczyk 3 2 University of Bologna. 3 Department of Diagnostic Imaging, 2nd Medical Faculty of Warsaw Medical University. Acknowledgment: The authors thank Lucas Greiner, Julie Walton, Ioan Sporea, Christian Nolsoe and Norbert Gritzmann for peer review of the manuscript