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Gastroenterology

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Family Medicine

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The gastrointestinal tract is a complex organ system responsible for the movement, the digestion, and the eventual absorption of nutrients and water from ingested food and fluids. Because of the large surface and the multiple neural and chemical elements involved, pathologic states may assume many forms.

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  1. Charles H. Duckett
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  1. Department of Family and Community Medicine Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, 300 South Hawthorne Road, 27103, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

    Robert B. Taylor M.D.

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Duckett, C.H. (1978). Gastroenterology. In: Taylor, R.B. (eds) Family Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3999-2_55

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