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Reader and Consultant Surgeon, University Surgical Unit Southampton General Hospital,
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Irving Taylor MD ChM FRCS FMedSci FHEA
Professor of Surgery, Director of Medical Studies and Vice Dean UCL Medical School, University College London,
UK
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Recent Advances in Surgery 33
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5Contributors
- Shirish G Ambekar mbbs ms mch dms (Greenwich) frcsed(cth)
- Clinical Fellow, Department of Cardio-thoracic Surgery
- Barts and The London NHS Trust, London, UK
- Jonathan R Boyle ma mb chb md frcsed frcseng frcs (Gen. Surg)
- Cambridge Vascular Unit, Cambridge University Hospitals
- Cambridge, UK
- James P Byrne bsc (hons) md frcs
- Consultant Surgeon
- Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust, UK
- Roderick TA Chalmers md frcsed
- Consultant Vascular Surgeon
- Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and University of Edinburgh, UK
- RI Cutress phd frcs
- Senior Lecturer and Consultant Surgeon, University of Southampton and Southampton Breast Unit, Cancer Research UK Centre, Somers Building, Mailpoint 824, Southampton General Hospital
- Southampton, SO16 6YD, UK
- Brian R Davidson md frcs
- Professor of Surgery
- Consultant HPB and Liver Transplant Surgery
- Department of Surgery, Royal Free Campus
- UCL Medical School, London, UK
- Ziad El-Khatib md
- Endocrine, Bariatric and General Surgeon
- Makassed Hospital, 11-6301 Beirut, Lebanon
- Joanna Franks mbbs (hons) bsc (hons) msc frcs
- Specialist Registrar in General Surgery
- Division of Surgery and Interventional Science
- Peter J Friend ma mb bchir frcs md
- Professor of Transplantation, University of Oxford, UK
- Kurinchi S Gurusamy mbbs mrcs msc
- Clinical Research Fellow/Honorary Clinical Teacher
- Department of Surgery, Royal Free Campus
- UCL Medical School, London, UK
- Anil Hemandas frcs
- Specialist Registrar, Wessex Deanery, UK
- Colin D Johnson mchir frcs
- Reader and Consultant Surgeon, University Surgical Unit
- Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK
- James Kirkby-Bott bsc mbbs frcs (gen surg)
- International Endocrine Surgery Fellow, Service de chirurgie endocrinienne et général Hôpital Huriez, CHRU, Lille, 59037, France
- Charles H Knowles bchir phd frcs (gen surg)
- Senior Lecturer and Hon Consultant Colorectal Surgeon
- Academic Surgical Unit, Centre for Digestive Diseases
- Blizard Institute of Cell and Molecular Science
- Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry
- Queen Mary University, London, UK
- Sunil Kumar ms dnb frcs (ed) frcs (eng)
- Senior Consultant and HOD Surgery
- Tata Main Hospital, Jamshedpur, India
- Peter J Lunniss ms frcs
- Clinical Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Surgeon
- Academic Surgical Unit, Centre for Digestive Diseases
- Blizard Institute of Cell and Molecular Science
- Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry
- Queen Mary University, London, UK
- Patrick G Magee bsc mbbch frcsi frcsed frcs(eng)
- Consultant Cardio-thoracic Surgeon
- Department of Cardio-thoracic Surgery
- Barts and The London NHS Trust, London, UK
- Samir P Mehta ma dm frcs
- Clinical Fellow, Upper GI Surgery
- Southampton University Hospitals, NHS Trust, UK
- Isuru S Nammuni mbbs bsci (med)
- Specialty Registrar, Vascular Surgery Unit
- Karen P Nugent frcs
- Senior Lecturer in Surgery
- University Surgical Unit, School of Medicine
- Southampton General Hospital
- Mailpoint 816, South Academic Block, Tremona Road
- Southampton SO16 6YD, UK
- Daniel O’ Leary frcsi frcs (gen)
- Consultant Surgeon
- Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth, UK
- Amjad Parvaiz frcs frcs (gen)
- Consultant Surgeon
- National Centre for Training in Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery
- Queen Alexandra Hospital, Southwick Road
- Cosham Portsmouth PO6 3LY, UK
- Sophie A Pilkington frcs
- Specialist Registrar, University Surgical Unit
- School of Medicine, Southampton General Hospital, Mailpoint 816
- South Academic Block, Tremona Road
- Southampton SO16 6YD, UK
- GT Royle ms frcs
- Consultant Surgeon, Southampton Breast Unit
- Princess Anne Hospital, C Level, Mailpoint 132
- Princess Anne Hospital, Southampton, SO16 5YA, UK
- C Rubin frcr
- Consultant Radiologist, Southampton and Salisbury, Breast Screening
- Unit, C Level, Mailpoint 132, Princess Anne Hospital
- Southampton, SO16 5YA, UK
- Michael A Silva mbbs md ms frcs (gen) frcs ed
- Consultant HPB Surgeon, Oxford Radcliffe NHS Trust, UK
- Andrew L Tambyraja md frcsed
- Clinical Lecturer in Surgery
- Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and University of Edinburgh, UK
- Irving Taylor md chm frcs fmedsci fhea
- Professor of Surgery, Director of Medical Studies and Vice Dean
- UCL Medical School, University College London, UK
- Tim Underwood phd mrcs
- Clinical Lecturer in Surgery, Cancer Sciences Division
- University of Southampton, UK
- Arunima Verma ms
- Department of Surgery, Tata Main Hospital, Jamshedpur, India
This latest volume of Recent Advances in Surgery 33 follows a familiar pattern. We have invited contributions, which address important and topical subjects in Surgery in General and in the major subspecialties of General Surgery.
In gastrointestinal surgery, we have chapters on pseudo-obstruction, pelvic floor disorders, therapeutic endoscopy and the surgical treatment of chronic pancreatitis and gallbladder cancer. Vascular surgery is moving forward into endovascular management but trauma is always with us and requires a range of traditional vascular surgical skills. Non-surgical advances have improved the results of treatment for breast cancer. We focus on the contribution made by the UK breast screening program.
As always, we take a wide-ranging look through randomized clinical trials and meta-analyses published last year, and we also have a contribution on the assessment of quality of trial publications, which we hope will be useful.
We are pleased to be working with our new publisher. We aim to maintain the high standards of the past, and we are confident that Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd., has produced a book of the highest quality, which will be valued by practicing surgeons and examination candidates in General Surgery.
Colin D Johnson
Irving Taylor