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Small Bowel Malabsorption and Diffuse Disease

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Abdominal Imaging

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Abstract

From the clinical point of view, the term “malabsorption” is not so much a disease as a symptom, or better yet a set of signs, biochemical, and biohumoral data that express specific anatomical and functional alterations of absorption or more generally of the assimilation of nutrients.

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  1. Department of Radiology, Galliera Hospital, 16132, Genoa, Italy

    Dr. Gian Andrea Rollandi

  2. Pa.ma.fi.r. Medical Center, Palermo, Italy

    Giuseppe Salerno M. D.

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    Bernd Hamm

  2. Department of Radiology, Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Pablo R. Ros

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Rollandi, G.A., Salerno, G. (2013). Small Bowel Malabsorption and Diffuse Disease. In: Hamm, B., Ros, P.R. (eds) Abdominal Imaging. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13327-5_33

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