Walker's Pediatric Gastrointestinal Disease

The revision of this definitive, two-volume reference work is dedicated to the maintenance of a comprehensive approach to the practice of pediatric gastroenterology. The text of the fifth edition was extensively reviewed to assess the continuing relevance and, as a result, the size and content of various sections have been modified and new chapters have been added. Each author, selected because of particular expertise in the field, has provided an authoritative and comprehensive account of his or her topic. In addition, new sections have been added to reflect the expanding complexity of the field, particularly new techniques now used to accurately establish complex diagnoses. As with previous editions, the size and content of each section has been modified and new chapters added to reflect an increasing evolution of subspecialty programs within gastroenterology and a better understanding of subspecialty conditions (motility, inflammation, and autoimmune bowel disease) that have emerged in pediatric gastroente

Ronald E. Kleinman, MD , Professor of Pediatrics Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Olivier-Jean Goulet, MD Professor of Pediatrics RenU Descartes University Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital Paris, France. Giorgina Mieli-Vergani, MD , Director, Pediatric Liver Service Professor in Pediatric Hepatology GuyAEs, KingAEs and St. Thomas School of Medicine KingAEs College, London, UK. Ian R. Sanderson, MSc, MD , Professor of Paediatric Gastroenterology Head, Center for Gastroenterology Center for Digestive Disease Blizard Institute of Cell & Molecular Science London, UK. Philip M. Sherman, MD , Professor of Pediatrics, Microbiology and Dentistry The Hospital for Sick Children University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Benjamin L. Shneider, MD , Professor of Pediatrics Director of Pediatric Hepatology ChildrenAEs Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.