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HAEMATEMESIS AND MELAENA Upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage remains a major medi - cal problem wi...

HELICOBACTER PYLORI H. pylori is involved in the aetiology of a number of common gastroduodenal...

Gastric erosions Erosive gastritis has a variety of causes, especially NSAIDs. Fortunately , mos...

Gastric mucus and the gastric mucosal barrier The gastric mucous layer is essential to the integr...

Gastric ulcers Incidence As with duodenal ulceration, H. pylori and NSAIDs are the important aeti...

GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOURS Gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GISTs) may arise in any part o...

Gastric acid secretion Secretion of gastric acid and pepsin tends to run in parallel, although t...

Gastric emptying studies These are useful in the study of gastric dysmotility problems, particula...

GASTRIC CANCER Carcinoma of the stomach is a major cause of mortality world - wide. Its prognosis...

GASTRIC OUTLET OBSTRUCTION The two common causes of gastric outlet obstruction are gastric cance...

GASTRITIS The great variety of names and classification systems used in gastritis is confusing. T...

FURTHER READING Al-Batran S-E, Homann N, Schmalenberg H et al . Perioperative che - motherapy wit...

Flexible endoscopy Flexible endoscopy is more sensitive than conventional radiology in the assess...

Foreign bodies in the stomach A variety of ingested foreign bodies reach the stomach, and very o...

Duodenum The duodenum is lined by a mucus-secreting columnar epithe lium. In addition, Brunner’s ...

Endocrine cells The stomach has numerous endocrine cells that are critical to its function. In th...

Erosive gastritis This is caused by agents that disturb the gastric mucosal barrier; NSAIDs and a...

Dieulafoy lesion This is essentially a gastric arterial venous malformation that has a characteri...

Duodenal adenocarcinoma Most duodenal tumours originate in the periampullary region and commonly ...

Duodenal ulceration Incidence There have been marked changes in the demography of patients prese...