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(Gastroenterology and Hepatology.) Edited by Cosimo Prantera and Burton I. Korelitz. 591 pp., illustrated. New York, Marcel Dekker, 1996. $150. ISBN 0-8247-9410-9.

Gastroenterologists who believe that "to know Crohn's disease is to know medicine" may overstate the case. Yet physicians familiar with this singular chronic illness cannot help but be struck by its variable clinical course and the diversity of its clinical features. Such physicians are bound to welcome this new, multiauthored textbook devoted to Crohn's disease. Drs. Prantera and Korelitz have assembled an impressive list of experts from around the world, many of whom are or have been affiliated with Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, where Crohn, Ginzburg, and Oppenheimer first described "regional ileitis" in 1932. In fact, the book . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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