We consider the stability issue of the inverse conductivity problem for a
conformal class of anisotropic conductivities in terms of the local Dirichlet–
Neumann map. We extend here the stability result obtained by Alessandrini
and Vessella (Alessandrini G and Vessella S 2005 Lipschitz stability for the
inverse conductivity problem Adv. Appl. Math. 35 207–241), where the
authors considered the piecewise constant isotropic case.