num_pages: 1112
description: This book is the gold standard specialty defining work in surgery of the upper gastrointestinal tract. An international contributor team, brought together by editors from the US and UK have produced a lavishly illustrated exhaustive reference work, which no general surgeon can be without. Divided into three sections - oesophagus, stomach and small intestine - this considers the aetiology and pathophysiology of gastrointestinal disease together with its surgical and medical treatment in adults and children. Covers comprehensively both medical and surgical treatment In addition to a full complement of surgical chapters , chapters on key non-surgical areas such as radiological investigation of the oesophagus, the role of endoscopy in the oesophagus and stomach and antisecretory drugs
language: English
title: Upper Digestive Surgery: Oesophagus, Stomach and Small Intestine
titlecomplete: Upper Digestive Surgery: Oesophagus, Stomach and Small Intestine
publisher: Bailliere Tindall