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CECIL
TEXT BOOK of MEDICINE


Associate Editors


WILLIAM P. AREND, MD
Endowed Chair in Rheumatology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado

Principles of Immunology and Inflammation
Diseases of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Rheumatic Disease

JAMES O. ARMITAGE, MD
Professor, Internal Medicine, Section of Hematology & Oncology, University of Nebraska College of Medicine, Section of Hematology and Oncology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska

Hematologic Diseases
Oncology

DAVID R. CLEMMONS, MD
Chief, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Metabolic Diseases
Nutritional Diseases
Endocrine Diseases
Women's Health
Diseases of Bone and Mineral Metabolism

JEFFREY M. DRAZEN, MD
Distinguished Parker B. Francis Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Senior Physician, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Editor-in-Chief, New England Journal of Medicine, oston, Massachusetts

Respiratory Diseases
Critical Care Medicine

ROBERT C. GRIGGS, MD
Professor and Chair of Neurology, Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Neurologist-in-Chief, Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, New York

Neurology

NICHOLAS LaRUSSO, MD
Chair, Department of Internal Medicine, Charles H. Weinman Endowed Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry/Molecular Biology, Distinguished Investigator of the Mayo Foundation, Division of Gastroenterology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota

Gastrointestinal Diseases
Diseases of the Liver, Gallbladder, and Bile Ducts
Coordinating Editors

ELIZABETH FOSTER, Ed.M
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

JANE NEWMAN, MA
Teaching Associate, Harvard Medical School, Director of Special Projects, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts