A Concise, Symptom-Based Textbook for Diagnosis and Decision Making in Clinical Practice. Over the past twenty years, thousands of physicians have come to depend on Yamadas Textbook of Gastroenterology . Its encyclopaedic discussion of the basic science underlying gastrointestinal and liver diseases as well as the many diagnostic and therapeutic modalities available to the patients who suffer from them wasand still isbeyond compare. This new textbook, Principles of Clinical Gastroenterology, is designed to inform practitioners on the features of the major clinical disorders in gastroentero.

Contributors; Preface; 1 Clinical decision making; 2 Economic analysis in the diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal diseases; 3 Psychosocial factors in the care of patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders; 4 Approach to the patient with dyspepsia and related functional gastrointestinal complaints; 5 Approach to the patient with dysphagia, odynophagia, or noncardiac chest pain; 6 Approach to the patient with gastroesophageal reflux disease; 7 Approach to the patient with dyspepsia and peptic ulcer disease; 8 Approach to the patient with gross gastrointestinal bleeding.