In recent years, important technological innovations have made it possible to evaluate the small bowel endoscopically. Thus, traditional diagnostic methods such as imaging techniques are flanked by enteroscopy. The aim of this book is to present the results of enteroscopy as a method to diagnose small bowel disease, correlating it to the other investigative methods and above all to clinical findings. The book is a unique selected collection of images deriving from the results of documented experience and also including a brief clinical presentation, tables and diagrams of diagnostic algorithms. Renowned and accredited experts in gastroenterology, enteroscopy and researchers in the sector of small bowel disease have contributed to this volume.

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The small Bowel: Structure and Function 1. Diagnostic Methodologies Small Bowel Imaging Procedures Abdominal Ultrasonography 2. Enteroscopy Sonde Enteroscopy Push Enterscopy Intraoperative Enteroscopy Laparoscopically Assisted Enteroscopy 3. Gastrointestinal Bleeding Emergency Bleeding Management of Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleeding Angiodisplasias Nsaid Enteropathy Meckel's Diverticulum-Jejunoileal Diverticulosis 4. Diarrhea and Malabsorption syndromes Diarrhea and Malabsorption snydromes: Clinical Overview Diarrhea and Malabsorption: The role of Enteroscopy Coelial Disease Tropical Sprue Whipple's Disease Ulcerative Jejuno-Ileitis Eosinophilic Enteropathy Vasculitis Crohn's Disease Amyloidosis Sarcoidosis Mastocitosis Abeta and Hypobetalipoproteinemias Hypogammaglobulinemia 5 Tumours Small Bowel Tumours Primary Gastrointestinal Lymphomas Carcinoid Tumours Enteroscopy and Aids Enteroscopy of the Transplanted Small Bowel Miscellany