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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The abstracts of the chapters of the seventh edition of Principles of Surgery, which comprise this companion handbook, were produced by members of the Department of Surgery at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. I am indebted to them for their efforts.

I also express my deep appreciation to Andrea Weinstein of the University of Rochester, who worked with the contributors, the publisher, and with me in every step of the production of the book.

Seymour I. Schwartz,
Editor-in-Chief