Published June, 2012
By John I. Allen and Mark DeLegge
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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Educates gastroenterologists about how to adapt to health care reform. This title discusses specific issues such as: Gastroenterologists and Accountable Care Organizations; Health Information Technology and the Gastroenterologist; Transitioning from Fellowship to Practice 2012; Going Big in Private Practice; and, more.

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Published June, 2012
By Neal Wilkinson
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Surgery
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Devoted to the management of Gastric Cancer, this title includes articles that focus on Epidemiology; Genetics and Prophylactic Surgery; Endoscopic Diagnosis & Staging; Gastric Stromal Tumors (GIST); Management of Early Stage Gastric Cancer; Endoscopic Mucosal Resection (EMR); Tailored Lymphadenectomy; and, Gastric Cancer - Eastern Experience.

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Published June, 2012
By W. McD. Armstrong
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology
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The term "intestinal permeation" refers to the process of passage of various substances across the gut wall, either from the lumen into the blood or lymph, or in the opposite direction.

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Published May, 2012
By Ravi Prakash, Kevin D. Mullen and Ravi K. Prakash
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Clinical Gastroenterology
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Because of the increasing burden of hepatitis C and fatty liver disease, there is an explosion in the prevalence of chronic liver failure and hence its complications. Topics in basic physiology, nitrogen metabolism, new insights into pathogenesis and brain edema are covered in great detail.

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Published May, 2012
By Helen Ward, Mireille B. Toledano, Gavin Shaddick, Bethan Davies and Paul Elliott
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: Oxford Handbooks Series
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The Oxford Handbook of Epidemiology for Clinicians is the essential reference for all clinicians and junior doctors who need to apply clinical evidence in everyday practice.

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Published May, 2012
By Rudolf Schiessel and Peter Metzger
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag GmbH)
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The work describes a new method of sphincter salvage in surgery of rectal cancer. Low tumors of the rectum are traditionally treated with amputation of the rectum. By contrast, intersphincteric resection allows sphincter salvage even in low tumors and is now widely accepted among experts in the field of colorectal surgery.

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Published May, 2012
By Maximilian Reiser, Maximilian F. Reiser, Carlo Bartolozzi, Christoph Johannes Zech and Richard Baron
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Medical Radiology / Diagnostic Imaging
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This book provides a lucid summary of modern multislice CT imaging of the abdomen, with a focus on the essential imaging findings.

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Published May, 2012
By R. Haring, J.R. Siewert, P. Langhans, R. Reding, H. Bunte, H.-W. Schreiber, J. R. Siewert and H.W. Schreiber
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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Dieses Buch befasst sich ausschliesslich mit dem Plattenepithelkarzinom der Speiseroehre, die Einzelartikel zahlreicher Autoren werden in 5 Abschnitten zusammengefasst: Anatomie und Pathologie, Klinik und perioperative Massnahmen, chirurgische Strategie und Therapiekonzept, spezielle Techniken - Komplikationen und palliative Therapieformen.

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Published May, 2012
By Roberto Tersigni and Cosimo Prantera
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag)
Series: Updates in Surgery
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Crohn's disease is an inflammatory bowel disease, whose symptoms are similar to other intestinal disorders, such as irritable bowel syndrome and ulcerative colitis;

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Published May, 2012
By Steven D. Wexner and Andrew P. Zbar
Publisher: Springer (Springer London Ltd)
Series: Springer Specialist Surgery Series
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The aim of this text is a superior quality colorectal book written by world experts targeted at senior surgical and colorectal trainees and young consultant coloproctologists in current areas of subspecialty expertise.

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