Emergency Abdominal Surgery

New diagnostic techniques in the acute abdomen; injuries to the liver and bile ducts, J.Terblanche and J.E.J.Krige; injuries to the spleen and pancreas, B.F.Gilchrist and D.D.Trunkey; fracture of the pelvic ring, L.Solomon and M.J.Stower; septicaemic shock, M.S.Dahn and A.J.Walt; peptic ulcer haemorrhage, K.E.Wheatley and M.R.B.Keighley; acute cholecystitis, calculous and acalculous, R.C.N.Williamson; early management of acute gallstone pancreatitis, M.J.McMahon; surgical complications of acute pancreatitus, E.L.Bradley III; adhesion obstruction of the small bowel, M.Lavelle-Jones and A.Cuschieri; malignant obstruction of the large bowel, A.R.Berry and N.J.Mortensn; colonic pseudo-obstruction, S.Paterson-Brown and H.A.F.Dudley; complications of the small bowel diverticula, W.E.G.Thomas; colonic perforation, D.J.Shoetz Jr; manifestations of appendicitis, M.J.Cooper; gynaecological causes of the acute abdomen, M.E.Setchell and P.L.Cass; mesenteric ischaemia, L.W.Ottinger; ruptured abdominal aneurysms, R.J.Lusby and D.Huber.