Satish Keshav is a Consultant Gastroenterologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.
Emma Culver is a Registrar Gastroenterologist at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.

Preface.

How to use this book.

List of abbreviations.

Part 1 Basics.

Basic science.

Approach to the patient.

Part 2 Cases.

Upper Gastrointestinal.

Case 1 A 61-year-old woman with progressive dysphagia.

Case 2 A 52-year-old man with atypical chest pain.

Case 3 A 57-year-old woman with upper abdominal discomfort.

Case 4 A 36-year-old man with upper abdominal discomfort and heartburn.

Case 5 A 27-year-old woman with nausea and vomiting.

Case 6 A 73-year-old man with haematemesis and melaena .

Case 7 A 68-year-old woman with fatigue, weight loss and altered bowel habit.

Lower Gastrointestinal.

Case 8 A 23-year-old woman with constipation.

Case 9 A 24-year-old woman with chronic diarrhoea.

Case 10 A 51-year-old woman with acute nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea.

Case 11 A 79-year-old woman with altered bowel habit and weight loss.

Case 12 A 54-year-old man with rectal bleeding.

Case 13 A 66-year-old woman with anaemia.

Liver disease.

Case 14 A 64-year-old man with abnormal liver functiontests.

Case 15 A 45-year-old man with acute jaundice.

Case 16 A 53-year-old woman with jaundice and abnormal liver tests.

Case 17 A 53-year-old man with abdominal swelling.

Case 18 A 36-year-old man who drinks alcohol.

Biliary and Pancreatic disease.

Case 19 A 79-year-old man with right upper quadrant colicky abdominal discomfort.

Case 20 A 19-year-old man with acute abdominal pain.

Nutrition.

Case 21 A 35-year-old woman with anorexia.

Case 22 A 48-year-old man with an increased body mass index.

Functional Disorders.

Case 23 A 21-year-old student with chronic abdominal pain.

Part 3 Self Assessment.

MCQs.

EMQs.

SAQs.

Answers.

Further reading.

Index of cases by diagnosis.

Index.

The colour plate section can be found facing p.54.