Publisher's Synopsis
This book is the gold standard specialty defining work in surgery of the upper gastrointestinal tract. An international contributor team, brought together by editors from the US and UK have produced a lavishly illustrated exhaustive reference work, which no general surgeon can be without. Divided into three sections - oesophagus, stomach and small intestine - this considers the aetiology and pathophysiology of gastrointestinal disease together with its surgical and medical treatment in adults and children.
