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Gastroenterology is a branch of internal medicine. It deals with functional disorders and diseases of the digestive system. The main focus within the specialty is on endoscopy, hepatology and gastroenterological oncology.
Important gastroenterological diseases include ulcer diseases (gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer), tumor of the digestive tract (colon carcinoma), liver diseases (liver cirrhosis and hepatitis), intestinal diseases such as celiac desease or the inflammatory bowel diseases like Crohn´s disease and ulcerative colitis.
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