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- Publisher
- Annual Reviews
- Copyright
- Copyright 1957 Annual Reviews. All rights reserved
- Subject
- Review Articles
- ISSN
- 0066-4219
- eISSN
- 1545-326X
- DOI
- 10.1146/annurev.me.08.020157.000403
- pmid
- 13425325
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
By SEYMOUR J. GRAY, M.D., PH.D., LEWIS J. KRAKAUER, M.D., COLIN G. RAMSEY, M.D., RAYMOND J. TIMMERMAN, M.D., AND CARLOS DUNCAN, M.D. Medical Clinic. Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts In reviewing the publications of the past year devoted to disorders of the gastrointestinal tract the authors have attempted to integrate the articles presenting newer fundamental knowledge or basic concepts with the clinical presentations which offered the broadest scope to the physician in the diag nosis, treatment and understanding of these diseases. ' Considerable attention this year has centered about the syndrome of metastasizing carcinoid tumors of the s mall intestine associated with right sided heart lesions and a high concentration of serotonin in the blood. There has been increased interest in studies of intestinal absorption utilizing isotope techniques, and continued investigation of the chemical and metabolic ab normalities in hepatic coma and its treatment. A nu mber of stimulating arti cles have been devoted to hormonal and endocrine influences upon the stomach and a large nu mber of publications have been concerned with chlorpromazine jaundice and intravenous cholangiography employing iodi pamide (Cholografin). ESOPHAGUS Anatomy and physiology . Con tinued
Journal
Annual Review of Medicine – Annual Reviews
Published: Feb 1, 1957