Gastrointestinal Disease

This textbook is the most complete reference work available, and its balanced yet detailed account of the basic science of the digestive system includes up-to-date discussions of the cell biology and molecular biology which underlie and determine its function. Organ physiology precedes description of organ disease and tightly interwoven into the major sections of disorder and disease is the pathophysiology of their signs, symptoms, and laboratory abnormalities. For completeness in diagnosis and management, a section apart from common organ disease is devoted to problems involving multiple organs such as AIDS, systemic manifestation of G-1 disease, abdominal pain, and bleeding. Includes such new features as a mini atlas of colour photos, an augmented section on nutritional problems and their management, updated diagnosis and management of the important inflammatory and malignant diseases of the G-1 tract, and much more! .