Table of Contents

Part 1 Approaches to common gastrointestinal problems: bleeding - approach to the patient with gross gastrointestinal bleeding, Grace H. Elta, approach to the patient with occult gastrointestinal bleeding, David A. Ahlquist; intestinal transport - approach to the patient with gas and bloating, Jay A. Perman; approach to the patient with acute abdomen and fever of abdominal origin, David McFadden and Michael J. Zinner; approach to the patient with ileus and obstruction, Robert W. Summerse and Charles C. Lu; approach to the patient with diarrhoea, Don W. Powell; approach to the patient with constipation, Arnold Wald; liver - approach to the patient with abnormal liver chemistries, Richard H. Moseley; approach to the patient with ascites, Bruce A. Runyon; miscellaneous - skin lesions associated with gastrointestinal diseases, Elizabeth F. Sherertz and Joseph L. Jorizz; approach to gastrointestinal problems in the elderly, Peter R. Holt; approach to gastrointestinal problems associated with common clinical conditions, James W. Freston and James R. Moore; approach to the patient requiring nutritional supplementation, Frederick H. Opper and William D. Heizer; advice to travellers, Edgar C. Boedeker and Patrick W. Kelley. Part 2 Gastrointestinal diseases: esophagus - anatomy and structural anomalies, Gregory A. Boyce and H.Worth Boyce; motility disorders of the esophagus, Joel E. Richter; reflux esophagitis, Roy C. Orlando; esophageal infections, Jean-Pierre Raufman; esophageal tumours, Don Powell; miscellaneous diseases of the esophagus, Eugene M. Bozymski and Jerry F. London; stomach - anatomy and structural anomalies, Gregory L. Eastwood; disorders of gastric emptying, Henry C. Lin and James H. Meyer; acid-peptic disorders, Kenneth R. McQuaid and Loren Laine; tumours of the stomach, C.Richard Boland, James M. Scheiman; surgery for peptic ulcer disease, Haile T. Debas and Susan L. Orloff; miscellaneous diseases of the stomach, Robert S. Sandler; small intestine - dysmotility of the small intestine, Sinn Anuras and Sita Chokhavatia; small intestine - infections with common bacterial and viral pathogens, Abraham G. Miranda and Herbert L. DuPont; chronic infections of the small intestine, William O. Dobbins, III; tumours and other neoplastic diseases of the small intestine, M.Peter Lance; specific mucosal protein deficiency states, Mark L. Lloyd and Ward A. Olsen; bacterial overgrowth, Philip M. Sherman; short bowel syndrome, Thomas A. Brasitus and Michael D. Sitrin; colon - anatomy and structural anomalies, Michael W. Mulholland; inflammatory bowel disease, William F. Stenson and Richard P. MacDermot; colonic polyps - benign and premalignant neoplasms of the colon, Gordon D. Luk et al; polyposis syndromes, Randall W. Burt; motility disorders of the colon, James C. Reynolds; diverticulitis, Charles D. Dietzen and John H. Pemberton; bacterial infections of the colon, J.Thomas LaMont; malignant tumours of the colon, C.Richard Boland; (part contents).