Moshe Schein et al. - Schein’s Common Sense Emergency Abdominal Surgery

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Roland E. Andersson MD PhD Associate Professor, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linkping University, Linkping, Sweden; Consultant, Department of Surgery, County Hospital Ryhov, Jnkping, Sweden ( )

Ahmad Assalia MD Chief of Advanced and Bariatric Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel ( )

Jack Baniel MD Head, Urology Institute, Rabin Medical Center, Petach Tikva, Israel ( )

Mark Cheetham BSc MD FRCS Consultant General and Colorectal Surgeon, Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK ( )

Jonathan E. Efron MD FACS FASCRS Associate Professor of Surgery, The Mark M. Ravitch MD Endowed Professorship in Surgery; Chief, Ravitch Division, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA ( )

Hans Ulrich Elben MD Leitender Artz der Radiologischen Abteilung, Kreisklinikum Schawrzwald-Barr GmbH, Donaueschingen, Germany ( )

Harold Ellis CBE MCh FRCS Professor, Applied Biomedical Research Group, Hodgkin Building, Guys Campus, London, UK ( )

Wojciech J. Grecki MD PhD Associate Professor, Jagiellonian University Medical College; Chief, Department of Pediatric Surgery, University Childrens Hospital, Krakw, Poland ( )

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Anat Ilivitzki MD Department of Radiology, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel ( )

Craig Joseph MBBCh DA (SA) FCS(SA) Surgeon and Gastroenterologist, Witwatersrand Donald Gordon Medical Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa ( )

Robin Kaushik MD DNB Consultant Surgeon, General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh, India ( )

Ari Leppniemi MD Chief of Emergency Surgery, Abdominal Center, University of Helsinki, Finland ( )

Evgeniy E. Perelygin MD Attending Surgeon, Department of Urology, Perm Clinical Center, Perm, Russia ( All chapters)

Graeme Pitcher MBBCh FACS FCS(SA) Pediatric Surgeon, Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA ( )

B. Ramana MS DNB FRCS Advanced Laparoscopic & Bariatric Surgeon, Belle Vue Clinic, Kolkata, India ( )

Paul N. Rogers MBChB MBA MD FRCS Consultant General and Vascular Surgeon, Department of Surgery, South Glasgow University Hospital, Glasgow, UK ( )

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James C. Rucinski MD FACS Director of Surgical Education, New York Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, USA ( )

Roger Saadia MD FRCS(Ed) Professor of Surgery, University of Manitoba and Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg, Canada ( )

Bashar Safar MD FACS FRCS FASCRS Assistant Professor of Surgery, Johns Hopkins Universtiy, Baltimore, Maryland, USA ( )

Erik Schadde MD FACS Director HPB Fellowship, Swiss HPB Center, Department of Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland ( )

Moshe Schein MD FACS Attending Surgeon, Marshfield Clinic, Ladysmith, Wisconsin, USA ( )

Brandon H. Tieu MD Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Oregon Health & Science University Hospital, Portland, Oregon, USA ( )

This book has been assembled in pieces during long years of intensive personal involvement, clinical and academic, urban and rural, with emergency abdominal surgery in South Africa, Israel, USA, UK, Australia, Finland, Nigeria, Kenya, Sudan, Pakistan, Thailand, Tuvalu and Australia.