Aetiology of Steatorrhoea

Idiopathic Steatorrhoea.

A NEW chapter in the story of idiopathic steatorrhoea was opened by the discovery of the various biopsy tubes which are swallowed by the patient and take either single specimens from the duodenum or jejunum (Shiner, 1956; Crossby and Kugler, I957) or, more recently, retrieve several samples from any level in the small bowel (Brandborg, Rubin and Quinton, 1959; Baker and Hughes, 1960). This allo...

The treatment of steatorrhoea.

Idiopathic steatorrhoea.

Macroglobulinaemia and steatorrhoea.

Nephrotic Syndrome with Steatorrhoea

the abdomen was still slightly distended and rather noisy; rectal examination vV negative. We didn't discover very much else except that she had a persist?^ Mr. K. D. J. Vowles: This is the case of a 56-year-old unmarried Irishwoman who was a cleaner and lived with her niece. She consulted her family doctor in Auguf' 1959, because she had diarrhoea for two days, then two days of normal bowel ha...