Jeffrey W. Milsom
Bartholomäus Böhm
Kiyokazu Nakajima

2006

Tempus fugit! The year 1990 was the first year for reports of laparoscopic methods to treat colonic diseases. It has been a full decade since the first edition of this book, Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery, was published (1996). It was not apparent in the mid-1990s whether this specialized field would become accepted in major departments of surgery, but now it is one of the most rapidly growing areas of laparoscopic surgery.