This reader-friendly, bimonthly resource provides a powerful, broad-based perspective on the most important advances from throughout the world literature. Featuring renowned guest editors and focusing exclusively on one or two topics, every issue of Current Opinion in Gastroenterology delivers unvarnished, expert assessments of developments from the previous year. Insightful editorials and on-the-mark invited reviews cover key subjects such as gastrointestinal infections; the large and small intestines; nutrition; the liver; inflammatory bowel disease; the pancreas; the stomach and the duodenum; and immunology--some 11 items of major relevance. All reviews are supplemented with an indispensable section, "References and Recommended Reading." At the back of each volume is "Current World Literature," an exceptionally thorough bibliography culled from several hundred top journals in the field.