Chronic abdominal pain diseases: Clinical diagnosis and treatment thinking of TCM and Western medicine

Author: Liu Kan
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Publish Date: 2004-02-01
Features: This book consists of twelve chapters. Chapter 1 provides an overview, introducing common chronic abdominal pain diseases and their general characteristics, including disease location, etiology and pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and commonly used traditional Chinese and Western medicine treatments and measures. Chapters 2 to 12 systematically describe one disease each, including chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer, non-ulcer dyspepsia, chronic biliary tract infection, cholelithiasis, chronic pancreatitis, ulcerative colitis, irritable bowel syndrome, chronic appendicitis, urinary stone disease, and chronic pelvic inflammatory disease. Each disease is discussed separately under the headings of overview, etiology and pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis. The book focuses on exploring and summarizing the integrated Chinese and Western medicine diagnostic and treatment approaches for various chronic abdominal pain diseases, with certain innovative insights in both syndrome differentiation and disease identification from an integrated Chinese and Western medicine perspective. This book serves as a reference for clinical medical professionals working in traditional Chinese medicine, Western medicine, and integrated Chinese and Western medicine.