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SECTION ONE BIOLOGIC ASPECTS OF GASTROINTESTINAL FUNCTION -- Chapter 1. Development of the Gastrointestinal Tract -- Chapter 2. Basics Aspects of Digestion and Absorption -- Chapter 3. Bile Acid Physiology and alterations in the Enterohepatic Circulation -- Chapter 4. Indigenous Flora -- Chapter 5. Gastrointestinal Motility -- Chapter 6. Mucosal Immunology and Mechanisms of Inflammation -- SECTION TWO CLINICAL PROBLEMS -- -- Chapter 7. Chronic Abdominal Pain of Childhood and Adolescence -- Chapter 8. Nausea and Vomiting -- Chapter 9. Diarrhea -- Chapter 10. Colic and Intestinal Gas -- Chapter 11. Constipation and Encopresis -- Chapter 12. Failure to Thrive -- Chapter 13. Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage -- Chapter 14. Eating Disorders and Obesity -- Chapter 15. Jaundice -- Chapter 16. Ascites -- Chapter 17. Caustic Ingestion and Foreign Bodies -- SECTION THREE THE ESOPHAGUS -- Chapter 18. Developmental Anatomy and Physiology of the Esophagus -- Chapter 19. Congential Malformations of the Esophagus -- Chapter 20. Gastroesophageal Reflux -- Chapter 21. Achalasia and Other Motor Disorders -- Chapter 22. Other Disease of the Esophagus -- SECTION FOUR THE STOMACH -- Chapter 23. Developmental Anatomy and Physiology of the Stomach -- Chapter 24. Pyloric Stenosis and Congenital Anomalies of the Stomach and Duodenum -- Chapter 25. Gastritis and Ulcers in Children -- Chapter 26. Gastropathies: Pathophysiology and Clinical Features -- Chapter 27. Gastric Motility Disorders -- Chapter 28. Bezoars -- SECTION FIVE THE SMALL AND LARGE INTESTINE -- Chapter 29. Developmental Anatomy and Physiology of the Small and Large Intestine -- Chapter 30. Maldigestion and Malabsorption -- Chapter 31. Protracted Diarrhea -- Chapter 32. Protein-Losing Enteropathy -- Chapter 33. Celiac Disease -- Chapter 34. Short Bowel Syndrome -- Chapter 35. Allergic Bowel Disease and Eosinophilic Gastroenteritis -- Chapter 36. Infectious Diarrhea -- Chapter 37. Enteric Parasites -- Chapter 38. Gastrointestinal Manifestations of Primary Immunodeficiencies -- Chapter 39. Gastrointestinal Complications of Secondary Immunodeficiency Syndromes -- Chapter 40. Crohn's Disease -- Chapter 41. Ulcerative Colitis in children and adolescents -- Chapter 42. Chronic Intestinal Pseudo-obstruction -- Chapter 43. Neonatal Necrotizing Enterocolitis -- Chapter 44. Appendicitis -- Chapter 45. Intussusception in Infants and Children -- Chapter 46. Inguinal Hernia and Hydrocele -- Chapter 47. Meckel's Diverticulum and Other Omphalomesenteric Duct Remnants -- Chapter 48. Hirschsprung's Disease -- Chapter 49. Imperforate Anus -- Chapter 50. Abnormal Rotation and Fixation of the Intestine -- Chapter 51. Small and Large Bowel Atresias -- Chapter 52. Anterior Abdominal Wall Defects -- Chapter 53. Stomas of the Small and Large Intestine -- Chapter 54. Disorders of the Anorectum (Fissures, Fistulae, Prolapse, Hemorrhoids, Tags) -- Chapter 55. Neoplasms of the Gastrointestinal Tract -- Chapter 56. Other Disease of the Small Intestine and Colon -- SECTION SIX THE LIVER AND BILE DUCTS -- Chapter 57. Developmental Anatomy and Physiology of the Liver and Bile Ducts -- Chapter 58. Neonatal Hepatitis -- Chapter 59. Biliary Atresia and Neonatal Disorders of the Bile Ducts -- Chapter 60. Fatty Acid Oxidation Disorders -- Chapter 61. Abnormalities of Hepatic Protein Metabolism -- Chapter 62. Abnormalities of Carbohydrate Metabolism and the Liver -- Chapter 63. Acute and Chronic Hepatitis -- Chapter 64. Portal Hypertension -- Chapter 65. Liver Failure and Transplantation -- Chapter 66. Diseases of the Gallbladder -- SECTION SEVEN THE PANCREAS -- Chapter 67. Developmental Anatomy and Physiology of the Pancreas -- Chapter 68. Cystic Fibrosis and Congenital Anomalies of the exocrine Pancreas -- Chapter 69. Pancreatitis -- Chapter 70. Secretory Neoplasms of the Pancreas -- SECTION EIGHT NUTRITION -- Chapter 71. Infant and Toddler Nutrition -- Chapter 72. Nutritional Assessment -- Chapter 73. Nutritional Acces - Tubes -- Chapter 74. Parenteral Nutrition -- Chapter 75. Enteral Nutrition -- Chapter 76. Management of Diarrhea -- Chapter 77. Metabolic bone disease and the gut -- Chapter 78. Gastrointestinal Pathology -- Chapter 79 Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography -- Chapter 80 Esophagogastroduodenoscopy, colonscopy, and related techniques -- Index.

Rev. edition of: Pediatric gastrointestinal disease. 2nd edition 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Biologic aspects of gastrointestinal function -- Clinical problems -- The esophasus -- The stomach -- The small and large intestine -- The liver and bile ducts -- The pancreas -- Nutrition.