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Research Article

• Non-surgical treatment of gall stones: many contenders but who will win the crown? (1 February, 1988)

  I A Bouchier
• Choledocholithiasis--in vivo stone dissolution using methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE). (1 February, 1988)

  W R Murray, G LaFerla, G M Fullarton
• Histocompatibility antigens in patients with alcoholic liver disease in Scotland and northeastern England: failure to show an association. (1 February, 1988)

  P R Mills, R N MacSween, H M Dick, W S Hislop
• Transpapillary iridium-192 wire in the treatment of malignant bile duct obstruction. (1 February, 1988)

  M D Levitt, B H Laurence, F Cameron, P F Klemp
• Somatostatin does not reduce oesophageal variceal pressure in liver cirrhotics. (1 February, 1988)

  G Kleber, T Sauerbruch, G Fischer, G Paumgartner
• Oesophageal function before, during, and after healing of erosive oesophagitis. (1 February, 1988)

  F Baldi, F Ferrarini, A Longanesi, M Angeloni, M Ragazzini, M Miglioli, L Barbara
• Functional relationships between cricopharyngeal sphincter and oesophageal body in response to graded intraluminal distension. (1 February, 1988)

  N A Andreollo, D G Thompson, G P Kendall, R J Earlam
• Maturation of the lower oesophageal sphincter in the preterm baby. (1 February, 1988)

  S J Newell, P K Sarkar, G M Durbin, I W Booth, A S McNeish
• Effects of osmoreceptor stimulation on human duodenal motor activity. (1 February, 1988)

  D G Thompson, D L Wingate
• Influence of ulcer healing agents on ulcer relapse after discontinuation of acute treatment: a pooled estimate of controlled clinical trials. (1 February, 1988)

  G Dobrilla, P Vallaperta, S Amplatz
• Raised plasma cholesterol precursors in patients with gut resections. (1 February, 1988)

  M A Färkkilä, R S Tilvis, T A Miettinen
• Intestinal permeability to polyethyleneglycol 600 in Crohn's disease. Peroperative determination in a defined segment of the small intestine. (1 February, 1988)

  G Olaison, P Leandersson, R Sjödahl, C Tagesson
• Studies of the rectal mucosa in coeliac sprue: the intraepithelial lymphocyte. (1 February, 1988)

  L L Austin, W O Dobbins
• Colorectal cancer in ulcerative colitis: a cohort study of primary referrals from three centres. (1 February, 1988)

  S N Gyde, P Prior, R N Allan, A Stevens, D P Jewell, S C Truelove, R Lofberg, O Brostrom, G Hellers
• Sigmoid motility in diverticular disease and the irritable bowel syndrome. (1 February, 1988)

  I F Trotman, J J Misiewicz
• Diminished neutrophil function in Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis identified by decreased oxidative metabolism and low superoxide dismutase content. (1 February, 1988)

  H W Verspaget, A S Peña, I T Weterman, C B Lamers
• In vitro mucus glycoprotein production by colonic tissue from patients with ulcerative colitis. (1 February, 1988)

  G F Cope, R V Heatley, J Kelleher, A T Axon
• Functional abdominal pain, psychiatric illness, and life events. (1 February, 1988)

  F Creed, T Craig, R Farmer
• Effect of calcitonin and calcitonin gene-related peptide on pancreatic functions in man. (1 February, 1988)

  C Beglinger, E Koehler, W Born, J A Fischer, U Keller, L E Hanssen, K Gyr
• Effect of omeprazole and cimetidine on prepyloric gastric ulcer: double blind comparative trial. (1 February, 1988)

  K Lauritsen, S J Rune, H R Wulff, J H Olsen, L S Laursen, T Havelund, L Astrup, F Bendtsen, J Linde, P Bytzer
• Communicating oesophageal duplication: a report of two cases. (1 February, 1988)

  M L Ratan, R Anand, S K Mittal, S Taneja
• Fulminant herpes simplex hepatitis in a patient with ulcerative colitis. (1 February, 1988)

  R D Shlien, S Meyers, J A Lee, R Dische, H D Janowitz
• Pancreatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. 12th annual meeting. 6 November, 1987. Abstracts. (1 February, 1988)