Review Of Surgery

Review of Surgery Review of Surgery Basic Science and Clinical Topics for ABSITE Gamal Mostafa, MD Lamont Cathey, MD Frederick L. Greene, MD Editors Gamal Mostafa, MD, Attending Surgeon, Department of General Surgery, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA Lamont Cathey, MD, Resident, Department of General Surgery, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA Frederick L. Greene, MD, Chairman, Department of General Surgery, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA Publisher’s Note: Both the content of the In-Training Examination and the term “ABSITE” are protected by copyright held by the American Board of Surgery. The term “ABSITE” is used with the express permission of the American Board of Surgery. Library of Congress Control Number: 2005939181 ISBN-10: 0-387-29080-X ISBN-13: 978-0387-29080-5 Printed on acid-free paper. © 2006 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of going to