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Book review
Imaging of Small Intestinal Tumours
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Imaging of Small Intestinal Tumours. Edited by Gourtosyiannis NC, Nolan DJ. (Pp 414; illustrated; $284.50.) Elsevier Science, 1997. ISBN 0-444-89997-9.
I was interested to learn that the radiology of small bowel tumours was first described by Golden in 1928. Since then all the standard works on gastrointestinal radiology have contained sections on small bowel tumours, but to my knowledge no other single work on this subject matter has emerged. Small bowel tumours represent less than 2% of all primary gastrointestinal (GI) tract tumours, but change in endoscopic practice means that the small bowel is now of greater importance to the GI radiologist, making a book …