RT Book, Section
A1 Laposata, Michael
A1 Dufour, D. Robert
A2 Laposata, Michael
SR Print(0)
ID 1104503924
T1 The Gastrointestinal Tract
T2 Laboratory Medicine: The Diagnosis of Disease in the Clinical Laboratory
YR 2014
FD 2014
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-180554-4
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1104503924
RD 2024/04/24
AB Understand  the  relative  contributions  of  clinical  laboratory  tests  and  other  diagnostic  studies  in  the  evaluation  of  the  patient  for  a  disorder  of  the  gastrointestinal  tract.Learn  the  appropriate  selection  of  diagnostic  tests  required  to  establish  a  diagnosis  of  ulcer  disease  from  Helicobacter  pylori  infection.Select  the  most  appropriate  tests  for  evaluation  of  suspected  celiac  disease,  and  learn  the  situations  where  results  may  be  misleading.Describe  the  recommended  approaches  to  screening  for  colon  cancer,  and  the  benefits  and  limitations  of  laboratory  tests  for  this  purpose.