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Edited by Sinn Anuras. 465 pp., illustrated. New York, Raven Press, 1992. $98. ISBN 0-88167-928-3.

This book, a comprehensive treatise on the causes, diagnosis, and management of gastrointestinal-motility disorders, consists of 19 chapters with extensive references, contained in slightly under 500 pages. The first six chapters are devoted to basic tenets of gastrointestinal structure and function as they relate to motility, followed by descriptions of various methods of assessing events involving motility throughout the gastrointestinal system. The remaining 13 chapters focus on disease-specific ("Irritable Bowel Syndrome") or organ-specific ("Motility Disorders of the Esophagus") motility disorders.

This book conveys a broad-based but not overly detailed understanding of normal and abnormal gastrointestinal motility. It achieves its goal . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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