digestive system disease

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Introduction
Mouth and oral cavity
- Dental caries
- Pharyngitis
- Congenital defects
Salivary glands
Esophagus
- Congenital defects
- Inflammatory disorders
- Strictures
- Dysphagia
- Pain
- Motility
- Gastroesophageal reflux
- Diverticula
- Cancer
Stomach
- Indigestion
- Ulcerative diseases
- Gastritis
- Cancer
Duodenum
Small intestine
- Traveler’s diarrhea
- Intestinal obstruction
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Malabsorption
- Congenital malformations
- Bacterial infections
- Parasitic infections
  - Roundworms
  - Hookworms
  - Pinworms
  - Tapeworms
- Appendicitis
- Chronic inflammations
- Celiac disease
- Tropical sprue
Large intestine
- Constipation
- Congenital megacolon
- Acquired megacolon
- Diarrhea
- Intestinal gas
- Diverticula
- Abscesses
- Bacterial infections
- Colitis
- Crohn disease
- Cancer
- Polyps
- Anal disorders
Liver
- Acute hepatocellular hepatitis
- Acute canalicular (cholestatic) hepatitis
- Chronic active hepatitis
- Cirrhosis
- Complications of advanced liver disease
  - Hepatic encephalopathy
  - Portal hypertension
  - Ascites
  - Hepatorenal syndrome
  - Tumours
Biliary tract
- Gallstones
- Other biliary tract disorders
- Jaundice
  - Unconjugated jaundice
  - Hepatocellular jaundice
  - Cholestatic jaundice
Pancreas
- Pancreatitis
- Chronic pancreatitis
- Cystic fibrosis
- Cancer

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