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Edited by Douglas A. Drossman, with Joel E. Richter, Nicholas J. Talley, W. Grant Thompson, Enrico Corazziari, and William E. Whitehead. 370 pp., illustrated. Boston, Little, Brown, 1994. $87.50. ISBN 0-316-19342-9.

Functional gastrointestinal disorders are frequent but poorly understood and often prove frustrating to patients and physicians. Amid the uncertainty stemming from limited clinical trials in this area, patients are often subjected to extensive (and expensive) tests in search of an elusive "organic" illness. The clear and thorough exposition on this topic presented in The Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders, edited by Drossman et al., is therefore a welcome addition to medical libraries.

Much of the book derives from a series of consensus-committee reports presented at the International Congress of Gastroenterology held in Rome in 1988 and subsequently published in Gastroenterology International. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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