Inflammatory Bowel DiseaseJoseph B. Kirsner, Roy Gerrard Shorter This text is intended to help provide the practical perspectiv= e practitioners need to manage patients suffering from inflammatory bowel disease. This fourth edition contains 11 new chapters and is illustrated with photographs and detailed line drawings. |
Contents
Historical Antecedents of Inflammatory | 3 |
The Epidemiology of Idiopathic Inflammatory | 31 |
Naturally Occurring and Experimental Models | 71 |
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