2nd Edition

The Little GI Book An Easily Digestible Guide to Understanding Gastroenterology

By Douglas Adler Copyright 2020
294 Pages
by CRC Press

294 Pages
by CRC Press

A practical, portable handbook, newly updated with nearly 100 color images and figures, The Little GI Book: An Easily Digestible Guide to Understanding Gastroenterology, Second Edition is an invaluable resource for anyone new to the world of gastroenterology and hepatology.  Featuring new information on the latest advancements in gastroenterology and hepatology and written in a... Read more

Dedication

About the Author Preface Preface to the First Edition

Chapter 1 Esophagus

Chapter 2 Stomach

Chapter 3 Small Intestine

Chapter 4 Colon and Rectum

Chapter 5 Liver

Chapter 6 Gallbladder and Bile Ducts

Chapter 7 Pancreas

Chapter 8 Endoscopy

Index

Biography

Douglas G. Adler, MD, FACG, AGAF, FASGE attended SUNY Binghamton as an undergraduate and received his medical degree from Cornell University Medical College in New York, New York. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Adler completed both a general gastrointestinal fellowship and a therapeutic endoscopy/endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He then returned to the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center for a fellowship in endoscopic ultrasound. Dr. Adler is currently a tenured Professor of Medicine and Director of Therapeutic Endoscopy at the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City, Utah. Dr. Adler is also the GI Fellowship Program Director at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Working primarily at the University of Utah School of Medicine’s Huntsman Cancer Institute, Dr. Adler focuses his clinical, educational, and research efforts on the diagnosis and management of patients with gastrointestinal cancers and complex gastrointestinal disease, with an emphasis on therapeutic endoscopy. He is the author of more than 400 scientific publications, magazine articles, and book chapters. This is Dr. Adler’s eighth gastroenterology textbook.