“Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler” Albert Einstein

The aim of this revision was to update a book originally published in 1991, with the second edition appearing in 1998. The objective is clearly to produce a manageable distillate of the contemporary state of clinical gastroenterology, current standard textbooks now being of substantial mass or multi-volume status.

In common with the other subject volumes in this series, it is aimed at doctors in training (both generalists …