PRACTICAL
GASTROENTEROLOGY
www.practicalgastro.com
A Peer-Review Journal
November 2012
INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE:
A PRACTICAL APROACH, SERIES #79
CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION IN
PATIENTS WITH INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE
by N.M. Joshi, D.S. Rampton
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PRACTICAL APPROACHES TO THE DIAGNOSIS
AND TREATMENT OF COLORECTAL CANCER, SERIES #8
COLONIC POLYPS: THE HARM OF OVERDIAGNOSIS
by James Allison, Gerrit A. Meijer
NUTRITION ISSUES IN GASTROENTEROLOGY, SERIES #111
DERMATITIS HERPETIFORMIS: WHAT PRACTITIONERS NEED TO KNOW
by Freda C. Sansaricq, Vesna Petronic-Rosic
A SPECIAL ARTICLE
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT OF CIRRHOTIC ASCITES
by Sohaib Hassan, Mazen Albeldawi, William Carey
A CASE REPORT
OSSEOUS METAPLASIA IN A COLON POLYP
by Michael Hjelkrem, Kevaghn Fair, Ajay Pabby