Gastroenterology in general practice. 7. rev. ed.

This latest edition again is intended as a source of reference and advice for the general practitioner or internal specialist, who will also find information about the diagnostic and therapeutical potentials offered by clinical experts or those specialising in gastroenterology. Wherever appropriate, such additional information also includes surgical treatment, in order to make the general practioner familiar with the full spectrum of possible treatments of cases reviewed. The case material does not include images of endoscopic findings, but instead presents X-rays and computed tomograms, and for the first time in this edition, a number of ultrasonic images. One tool which should not be forgotten among all the numerical, tabulated and statistical information, or double blind study reports, is the practioner's personal approach and contact with the patient, and his common sense and experience, which is needed to combine information and techniques into diagnosis and treatment serving the patient's needs. (orig./DG) With 246 figs., 23 tabs