Clinics in gastroenterology: symptoms in gastroenterology

Common Symptoms and Signs in Gastroenterology

DIVERTICULAR DISEASES (CLINICS IN GASTROENTEROLOGY Vol. 4, No. 1)

1. The seven medical units on the E.B.S. rota have already all their patients admitted as "medical emergencies". These units are in the major hospital complexes with a heavy teaching programme and include three professorial units. Their work is dominated by the burden of accepting and disposing of "medical emergencies". 2. The back up hospitals which have approximately a quarter of the availabl...

Gastroenterology

This book is one of a series of handbooks commissioned by the British Nuclear Medicine Society to act as a guide to Clinicians interested in the clinical use of radioactive tracers. The book is designed to discuss the potential applications of radioactive trace methods to clinical problem solving. No one would dispute the attraction of a series of this kind and after the choice of topic, the mo...

Gastroenterology

IN Part I of this book practical health education is offered at all the critical periods of life's development, from womb to tomb. The book is enjoyable to read, but some medical data may only be read and understood by the more educated public, and not by socially deprived people in the community. An admirable attempt is made however to educate about what constitutes 'Health and Non-Health' and...

Update in gastroenterology.

I will consider the literature on screening or surveillance for Barrett esophagus. In programs designed to screen for Barrett esophagus, members of the general population who are believed to be at increased risk (usually those with gastroesophageal reflux, although, as we will see, the at-risk population may be larger) undergo endoscopic evaluation once to establish or exclude the disease. Surv...