This book presents a detailed account on various aspects of the study and research approaches on Gastrostomy. Gastrostomy placement is a technique to provide nutrition to patients who are not able to eat. The book focuses on the need of gastrostomy in children, people with neurological impairment and people diseased with head and neck tumors. Home enteral nutrition is applicable to all these sets of patients and is considerably easier with gastrostomy. The new manifestations require new methods like laparoscopic gastrostomy, laparoscopy assisted endoscopic gastrostomy with/without...

This book highlights the management as well as advances in gastric carcinoma. In various analyses of cancer-related deaths across the world, gastric cancer has been found to be the second most common form of cancer. In an age when a significant part of world population is fighting battles against different types of cancer, gastric cancer still has no screening tests available for its diagnosis, which makes it dangerous and lethal. Recently, many advances have been made to develop new regime schemes. This book highlights the evaluation of premalignant lesions, current management of early...

This book provides an integrated analysis of gastritis. The term Gastritis was first coined around 150 years ago, yet its etiology and prognosis has changed as medical complications related to gastritis are in the focus of distinct sub-disciplines like gastroenterology, immunology, genetics, biology, etc. This book highlights information regarding the history of gastritis terminology, epidemiology, distinct research and clinical techniques applied to the background studies and the molecular pathology, animal models, novel gastric mucosal endogenous defensive neural mechanism...