Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Gastroenterology

This book brings together extensive knowledge of the structure and cell physiology of the enteric nervous system and provides an up-to-date synthesis of the roles of the enteric nervous system in the control of motility, secretion and blood supply in the gastrointestinal tract.

It includes sections on the enteric nervous system in disease, genetic abnormalities that affect enteric nervous system function, and...

Hepatobiliary medicine has seen major recent scientific advances in viral hepatitis, haemochromatosis, and autoimmune liver/disease. This has been aided by imaging advances in MRI and CT. This volume of 200 cases, written by an internationally renowned author team, covers the whole spectrum of liver disease. The text entries are supplemented with clinical photos, imaging, charts, and graphs. The problem-oriented, randomized self-assessment format lends itself to revision and continuing professional development.

This book contains the proceedings of Falk Symposium 157, entitled Chronic Hepatitis: Metabolic, Cholestatic, Viral and Autoimmune, held in Freiburg, Germany, in October 2006: one of three symposia during the XIII Falk Liver Week 2006. It provides up-to-date information on new developments in the field of chronic hepatitis and its various entities.

This book is the proceedings of the Falk Symposium 158, on 'Intestinal Inflammation and Colorectal Cancer', held in Seville, Spain, on 23--24 March 2007.

The past 15 years have brought significant progress in the molecular understanding of colon carcinogenesis and tumour progression. This knowledge originated primarily from familial cancer syndromes, extended to sporadic tumours and fuelled the development of target-specific drugs.

In contrast, the functional relationship between inflammation and the origin of cancer is not new. The German pathologist Rudolf L.K. Virchow had...

This reference discusses best practices for the management of patients with cancers of the esophagus, stomach, colon, liver, and pancreas. Focusing on a wide variety of GI carcinomas by organ and tumor type, this source provides expert coverage of diagnostic, staging, and treatment procedures by seasoned oncologists and radiologists, and offers in-depth discussions of current research regarding tumor markers, molecular biology, and clinical presentation.

Iron Physiology and Pathophysiology in Humans provides health professionals in many areas of research and practice with the most up-to-date and well-referenced volume on the importance of iron as a nutrient and its role in health and disease. This important new volume is the benchmark in the complex area of interrelationships between the essentiality of iron, its functions throughout the body, including its critical role in erythropoiesis, the biochemistry and clinical relevance of iron-containing enzymes and other molecules involved in iron absorption, transport and metabolism, he...