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CECIL
TEXT BOOK of MEDICINE

Section XII Gastrointestinal Diseases


143 APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH DIARRHEA AND MALABSORPTION
     Definitions
     Epidemiology
     Pathobiology
 ACUTE DIARRHEAS
     Clinical Manifestations
     Diagnosis
     Treatment
     Prevention
 CHRONIC DIARRHEAS
   Prolonged, Persistent, and Protracted Infectious Diarrheas
   Malabsorptive Syndromes
   Conditions That Impair Intraluminal Digestion
     Clinical Manifestations
     Diagnosis
     Treatment
     Pathobiology
     Clinical Manifestations
     Diagnosis
     Treatment
     Pathobiology
     Epidemiology
     Pathobiology
     Clinical Manifestations
     Diagnosis
     Definition and Epidemiology
     Pathobiology
     Clinical Manifestations
     Diagnosis
     Treatment
     Prognosis
   Infection
   Conditions That Impair Nutrient Delivery to the Systemic Circulation
 WATERY DIARRHEAS
   Ingestion of Nonabsorbable Solutes: Magnesium and Sodium Phosphate/Sulfate Diarrheas
   Carbohydrate Malabsorption
   Prior Surgery: Bile Acid Diarrhea
   Functional Watery Diarrheas (Irritable Bowel Syndrome)
 TRUE SECRETORY DIARRHEAS
   Endocrine Tumor Diarrheas
   Nonendocrine Malignancies
   Factitious Diarrhea
   Chronic Idiopathic Diarrhea and Pseudopancreatic Cholera Syndrome
   Diabetic Diarrhea
   Alcoholic Diarrhea
 INFLAMMATORY DIARRHEAS
   Inflammatory Bowel Disease
   Eosinophilic Gastroenteritis
   Protein-Losing Enteropathy
   Radiation Enteritis
   Miscellaneous Diseases
     Diagnosis of Chronic Diarrheas
     Treatment of Chronic Diarrheas