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Edited by Gunnar Jarnerot, with John Lennard-Jones and Sidney Truelove. 593 pp., illustrated. Malmo, Sweden, Corona/Astra, 1992. Price not available. ISBN 91-564-0890-0.

This book is intended for physicians and surgeons who treat patients with inflammatory bowel disease. In the preface the editors state that their aim was "to present the state of knowledge of inflammatory bowel disease in a reasonably compact volume." Thus, the challenge that the editors faced was to balance conciseness with the depth of information required for physicians who treat patients with ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease to appreciate the pathophysiology of these disorders and its application to diagnosis and treatment. For a physician like myself, trained on the eastern seaboard of the United States, the book also offers . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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