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 Normal Small Bowel.- The small bowel: structure and function.- Diagnostic Methodologies.- Small bowel imaging procedures.- Transabdominal ultrasonography.- Nuclear tests.- Enteroscopy.- Sonde enteroscopy.- Push enteroscopy.- Intraoperative enteroscopy.- Laparoscopically assisted enteroscopy.- Gastrointestinal Bleeding.- Emergency bleeding.- Management of obscure gastrointestinal bleeding.- Angiodysplasias.- NSAID enteropathy.- Meckel's diverticulum Jejunoileal diverticulosis.- Diarrhea and Malabsorption.- Diarrhea and malabsorption syndromes: clinical overview.- Diarrhea and malabsorption: the role of enteroscopy.- Coeliac disease.- Tropical sprue.- Whipple's disease.- Ulcerative jeunoileitis.- Eosinophilic enteropathy.- Vasculitis.- Crohn's disease.- Amyloidosis.- Sarcoidosis.- Mastocytosis.- Abeta and hypobetalipoproteinemias.- Hypogammaglobulinemia.- Tumors.- Small bowel tumors.- Primary gastrointestinal lymphoma.- Carcinoid tumours of the small bowel.- Other Indications.- Enteroscopy and AIDS.- Enteroscopy of the transplanted small bowel.- Uncommon endoscopic appearances of the small bowel mucosa.