Published March, 2012
By Lawrence S. Friedman and Shanthi Sitaraman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (Wiley-Blackwell)
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Highly practical and concise, this hands-on guide focuses on specific common clinical scenarios. Each section covers a particular area of the GI tract and follows a regular structure of: overview of normal function, physiology, pathophysiology, clinical presentation, differential diagnosis, diagnostic tests, and treatment.

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Published March, 2012
By J.H. Linner, A. Hage and R.L. Drew
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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The medical profession has long been aware of the discouraging intractability of morbid obesity to all forms of conservative management, and it is only recently that physicians have come to realize that surgery can provide very real palliation for the morbidly obese patient.

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Published March, 2012
By Raymond L. Hurt
Publisher: Springer (Springer London Ltd)
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Both the investigation and treatment of cancer of the oesophagus are comprehensively presented in Management of Oesophageal Carcinoma. This information is otherwise not easily available in one source.

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Published March, 2012
By Jacques Van Dam
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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Deals with the topic of management of benign and malignant pancreatic disease, and provides advanced clinical information to gastroenterologists. This title features articles that are devoted to pancreatic cancer and span medical management, surgical management, radiologic imaging, endoscopic diagnosis, palliation, and screening.

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Published March, 2012
By R. Ottenjann and H. Fahrlander
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Interdisziplinäre Gastroenterologie
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Unter Mitarbeit zahlreicher Fachwissenschaftler

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Published March, 2012
By William J Snape, JR.
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Topics in Gastroenterology
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In their second year in medical school, students begin to learn about the differences between "disease" and "illness." There is, alas, little mention of functional bowel disease or of the irritable or spastic colon, for that is not easy to show on hard copy.

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Published March, 2012
By J. Marks
Publisher: Springer
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This book has been designed, as its title implies, as a practical book for medical practitioners, although it should be of interest to medical students and nutritionists. To add to this reference list there is a reading list which has been selected to give key books, reviews with extensive bibliography and important articles over the past 10 years.

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Published March, 2012
By Sanford Markowitz, Nathan A. Berger and Sanford D. Markowitz
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Energy Balance and Cancer
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The gastrointestinal track provides one of the distinct systems where multiple malignancies, including adenocarcinoma of the pancreas, esophagus and colon are each associated with obesity.

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Published March, 2012
By Richard Reilly
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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Epidemiologists, on the basis of studies carried out chiefly in Africa, have suggested that depletion of fiber in the modern Western diet affects health adversely.

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Published March, 2012
By C. Herfarth, A. Von Herbay and J. Stern
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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