"Colonoscopy is not merely a tool in the hands of a
practitioner, but it is a discipline with an infrastructure
built upon many areas of medicine, including internal
medicine, the general practice of medicine, and gastroenterology
in particular, as well as surgery, pathology,
radiology, pediatrics, and molecular biology. The
expanding horizon of colonoscopy was the stimulus for
us to organize a new comprehensive textbook on this
field. The chapters in this volume address every aspect
of colonoscopy, and its interface with all of the other sections
of medicine."
