Authors:
Moshe Schein MD FACS FCS (SA) Professor of Surgery, Cornell University Medical College & Bronx Lebanon Hospital, New York, USA, John R Farndon BSc MD FRCS Professor and Head of Division, University of Bristol and Consultant Surgeon, Bristol Royal Infirmary, Bristol, UK, Abe Fingerhut FACS FRCPS (g) Chief of Service, Digestive Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal, Poissy, France and Associate Professor of Louisiana State University Medical School, New Orleans, LA, USA