Practical Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (eBook)

Peter B. Cotton is Professor of Medicine, and Director of the Digestive Disease Center, at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. He was born and educated in England, where his father was a rural family physician. He graduated in 1963 from Cambridge University and St. Thomas Hospital Medical School. During a year of bench research as part of his GI training, he came across a paper describing the first fiberoptic gastroscope with a biopsy capability. Christopher Williams is Consultant Physician in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy at St. Mark's and Northwick Park Hospitals in London, England. He is Director of the Wolfson Unit for Endoscopy and its associated Kennedy Leigh Academic Centre. This focuses on development of new approaches to colonoscopy, its teaching, and aspects of colorectal cancer prevention. He has private practice at the London Clinic and is Honorary Consultant at several other hospitals. Christopher Williams was born in 1938 in Norwich, England.

Preface to the Fifth Edition.

Preface to the First Edition.

Acknowledgements.

Information on the Accompanying CD-ROM's.

1. The Endoscopy Unit and Staff.

2. Equipment.

3. Patient Care.

4. Diagnostic Upper Endoscopy Techniques.

5. Therapeutic Upper Endoscopy.

6. Colonoscopy and Flexible Sigmoidoscopy.

7. Therapeutic Colonoscopy.

8. Resources and Links.

Index

'This book is essential reading for all trainees ingastroenterology and should be read by all practicing endoscopistswho are interested in improving their techniques.' GastrointestinalEndoscopy, August 1998 on the 4th edition

'The two titans of the endoscopic firmament have updated a bookthat is packed end to end with practical advice. I have no idea howmany hundreds of endoscopists this pair have taught but theirstudents are fortunate indeed. The rest of us can just share intheir experience from their book.' Gut, Nov 1996 on the 4thedition.