[Small bowel disease--an internal medical view (author's transl)].

Diseases of the small intestine are occurring rarely in the average number of hospitalised patients, thus diagnosis and therapy often are difficult. Therefore the following article gives an overview of the variety of these diseases. Clinical, diagnostical, and therapeutical possibilities are taken into special consideration. Malabsorption syndromes, gastroenteropathies with loss of proteins, enteritic diseases, tumors and anomalies of the small intestine are discussed.