Publisher's Synopsis
Enlarged to two volumes totalling nearly 900 pages, this second edition aims to cover all that is currently known about the biopsy diagnosis of diseases of the digestive tract.;Second edition highlights include: the latest techniques for the detection of diseases in virtually all parts of the digestive tract; descriptions of early pathologic changes leading to recognition of disease states in small, often poorly oriented specimens; instruction on the exact localization, extent, and natural history of conditions such as esophagitis, chronic gastritis, duodenitis, Crohn's disease, and ulcerative colitis; and coverage of early forms of neoplasia, including carcinomas of the colon and stomach as well as esophageal carcinomas and digestive tract lymphomas.;Each chapter is devoted to a different segment of the digestive tract and treats the segment's full complement of diseases until the diagnosis of the entire digestive tract is covered.;Also included in this edition are the various aspects of AIDS-related and other immunocompromised host-related digestive tract diseases.
