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Surgery has never been a science. Most of the “standard” operations that are regularly performed were established, like the boundaries of the countries in which we live, as accidents of history. Most of the surgical papers with pretensions to real scientific method are about the trappings of surgery rather than the actual craft which is the essence of its daily practise. Chemotherapy, anaesthetic and antibiotic agents, and sometimes the consequences and outcomes of surgery are often well reported and are the subject of controlled prospective trials, but the actual building blocks themselves remain poorly defined.
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Heald, R.J. (1997). Total Mesorectal Excision:History and Anatomy of an Operation. In: Søreide, O., Norstein, J. (eds) Rectal Cancer Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60514-7_15
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