Congenital Atresia of the Alimentary Tract

Diseases of the Alimentary Tract

(Pp. xiii + 411; figs. 60. 60s.) London: William Heinemann Medical Books, 1963. THE appearance of this book is an important event. There has not been for many years a standard British textbook of gastroenterology, and recent attempts to supply one have not been so successful as one could have wished. The authoritative and massive three-volume work of Bockus is the stand-by of every gastroentero...

Hamartomas in the alimentary tract.

Aging and the alimentary tract.

Congenital Atresia of The

In an analysis of the autopsies performed at the Hospital for Sick Children since the beginning of this century, numbering 6,000 in all, congenita] atresia of some or other part of the alimentary tract has been found on 28 occasions, and it is on these ca.ses that this report is based. In addition, congenital narrowing without comnplete obliteration of the lumlen has been found in six cases, an...

Alimentary Tract: Intestine

While tremendous advances have improved the understanding of inflammatory bowel disease, with regard to environmental risk factors as well as the biochemical nature of the inflammatory process, a determination of primary etiology remains elusive. Numerous theories have been proposed in the past century concerning the cause of Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis with implications for specific...