Provides coverage of contemporary clinical gastroenterology. In 143 chapters, the text reviews clinically relevant basic science, presents practical approaches to common symptoms, discusses the spectrum of diseases and describes all diagnostic and therapeutic modalities currently available. This third edition of the text includes additional chapters on gastrointestinal inflammation, oral manifestations of gastrointestinal disease, approach to the patient with gastrointestinal neoplasm and surgical treatment of inflammatory bowel disease.