Unfortunately the tenth edition of this famous text has
been a little slow in arriving. The pressures on a surgeon
in modern clinical practice have reduced markedly the
time available for ‘extra’ work. As the senior editor I am
extremely grateful for the contributions made to this
edition by my colleagues Tito Lopes and Raj Naik,
without their assistance this edition would have been
even longer in the gestation.
Surgery remains an art form