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Diagnostic procedures in pancreatic disease. Ed. by P. Malfertheiner and H. Ditschuneit, pp. xiii + 331, 1986 (Springer-Verlag, Berlin), DM128. ISBN 3–540–16395–6 (Berlin), 0–387–16395–6 (New York)

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This compact, glossy-paged book represents the proceedings of a symposium held in Ulm, West Germany, in March 1985. The title suggests yet another recitation of the pancreatic investigative repertoire but, in fact, the text also includes a rich mixture of clinical observation, physiology, pathophysiology and pathology. The editors are to be congratulated on their choice of contributors, who range from acknowledged pioneers with didactic styles to today's leading researchers, whose refreshing and forthright approach mounts a much-needed challenge to "dogma" with regard to the aetiogenesis of pancreatitis.