Inflammatory Dowel Disease

Includes Bibliographical references and Index

Part 1 Clinical aspects of inflammatory bowel disease: clinical patterns in inflammatory bowel disease, J.M.Rhodes; Crohn's disease in childhood and adolescence, M.J.G.Farthing; inflammatory bowel disease of the elderly, S.G.M.Meuwissen and C.A.Seldenrijk; patho-physiology of symptons in inflammatory bowel, S.F.Phillips; epidemiology and surveillance of cancer in ulcerative colitis, G.Hellers. Part 2 Advances in assessment of inflammatory bowel disease: radiological assessment of Crohn's disease of the small intestine, N.C.Gourtsoyiannis; endoscopic assessment of inflammatory bowel disease, R.Modiglian and A.Bitoun; endosonography in the evaluation of perianorectal, T.L.Tio et al; radio-labelled leucocytes in inflammatory bowel disease, M.E.Roddie; laboratory indices in inflammatory bowel disease, C.Brignola et al. Part 3 Aetiology of inflammatory bowel disease: epidemiology of IBD and implications for pathogenesis, T.Gilat and A.Hallak; epidemiology of inflammatory bowel disease - a European prospective, S.Shivananda and J.F.Mayberry; microbial aetiology of Crohn's disease - mycobacteria - cause or commensal, D.Y.Graham et al; bacterial products as inflammatory modulators in IBD, V.S.Chadwick; role of prostaglandins and cytokines in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease, D.Rachmilewitz; leuotrine B4 in inflammatory bowel disease, W.F.Stenson; colonic glycoprotein heterogeneity and inflammatory bowel disease, B.Panzini and D.K. Podolsky; neuroendocrine system of the gut in IBD, L.Probert and A.A. Anagnostides. Part 4 Treatment of inflammatory bowel disease: new strategies for medical therapy of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, corticosteroids and immunosuppresive drugs, J.E.Lennard-Jones; advances in drug treatment - new salicylates, S.B.Hanauer; new corticosteroid drugs for inflammatory bowel disease, H.J.F.Hodgson; local treatment of ulcerative colitis, N.Campieri et al; food intolerance in Crohn's disease, S.N.M.Kelly et al; elemental diets in Crohn's disease, H.Malchoa and A.P.Wolf. Part 5 Surgery for inflammatory bowel disease: elective surgical treatment for chronic ulcerative colitis, A.M.Bellard and R.R. Dozois; surgery in Crohn's disease, B.G.Wolff; inflammatory bowel disease - its present and its future, J.B.Kirsner.

A study of inflammatory bowel disease which examines the various clinical, epidemiological, diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of the complaint.