Surgery is an authoritative, comprehensive collection of educational reviews that present the current knowledge and practice of

surgery. Surgery also indicates recent advances that improve the understanding of disease and the safe and effective treatment of
patients. It comprises concise and systematically updated contributions that are produced over a three-year cycle. Surgery is an
excellent didactic tool to help consultant surgeons train their junior staff to become safe and competent surgeons.

Series editor
W E G Thomas MS FRCS FSACS(Hon) Consultant Surgeon, Honorary Senior Lecturer, Sheffield University, Member of Council and
past Vice President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

Clinical editor
Michael G Wyatt MSc MD FRCS FRCSEd (ad hom) Consultant Surgeon, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne; Honorary Reader, Newcastle
University; Clinical Editor, SURGERY; Honorary Secretary, The Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and Member of the Court
of Examiners for the Intercollegiate MRCS.

Editorial adviser Ian Nesbitt MBBS FRCA DICM (UK)

Harold Ellis CBE DM FRCS FRCOG
Emeritus Professor of Surgery, London University
Clinical Anatomist, Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’s
School of Biomedical Science, London, UK
Editorial Board
Jon Anderson FRCS (CTh)
Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon
Hammersmith Hospital NHS Trust, London, UK
Emily Jane Baird MBChB MRCS (Glasgow)
Trauma and Orthopaedic Specialty Registrar,
West of Scotland Rotation; and President of
the British Orthopaedic Trainees Association
Frank Carey FRCPath
Professor and Consultant Histopathologist
Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, UK
Christopher R Chapple MD FRCS(Urol) FEBU
Visiting Professor, Sheffield Hallam University
Consultant Urological Surgeon,
Royal Hallamshire Hospital, UK
Ben Cresswell MBChB FRCS (Gen Surg)
Consultant Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgeon
The Basingstoke Hepatobiliary Unit
North Hampshire Hospital, UK
Michael J Kelly MChir FRCS MRCP (UK)
Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, Leicester, UK and National
Advisor Colorectal Cancer, NHS Improvement. Court of
Examiners RCSEng.
Peter Lamb MBBS FRCS(Eng) MD FRCS (Gen)
Consultant Upper GI and General Surgeon
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, UK
Anthony Lander PhD DCH FRCS (Paed)
Senior Lecturer in Paediatric Surgery and Consultant
Paediatric Surgeon, Birmingham Children’s Hospital, UK
Mary Murphy MB BCh, BAO, FRCS (SN)
Consultant Neurosurgeon
Royal Free Hospital, London, UK
Consultant in Anaesthesia and Critical Care
Freeman Hospital, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
Joseph Shalhoub BSc MBBS MRCS (Eng) FHEA PhD
Specialty Registrar in General Surgery, London Deanery
and Joint Vice President, Association of Surgeons in Training
Frank CT Smith BSc MD FRCS
Consultant Senior Lecturer in Surgery
Bristol Royal Infirmary, Bristol, UK
Helen Sweetland MD FRCS (Ed)
Reader in Surgery and Honorary Consultant Surgeon
Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust, UK
William Wallace MBChB(Hon) PhD FRCPE FRCPath
Consultant Pathologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, UK
Robert Wilkins MA DPhil (Oxon)
Lecturer in Physiology
Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics
St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, UK
Mark Wilkinson PhD FRCS (Orth)
Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
University of Sheffield, UK
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, UK
Surgical and Clinical Anatomy for the MRCS exam
Series editors
Harold Ellis CBE DM MCh FRCS FRCOG London
Vishy Mahadevan MB BS PhD FRCS London
This series is available only on the website:
www.surgeryjournal.co.uk

Founder editors
John S P Lumley MS FRCS London
John L Craven MD FRCS York