BMJ 1994;308:1373 (21 May)

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Confusing photographs

EDITOR, - The legend to the phograph in C M S Royston and colleagues' article on training in laparoscopy highlights an increase in the incidence of damage to the common bile duct since the advent of minimally invasive surgery.1 If, as the photograph suggests, trainees are now being taught to look for the gall bladder in the pelvis rather than the right hypochondrium, is this really surprising? Is even the BMJ's photo library underfunded? Or have the editors just forgotten their anatomy?

P Saunders 

St Albans AL3 5UB.

  1. Royston CMS, Lansdown MRJ, Brough WA. Teaching laparoscopic surgery: the need for guidelines. BMJ 1994;308:1023-5. (16 April.) [Free Full Text]

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Relevant Article

Teaching laparoscopic surgery: the need for guidelines
C M S Royston, M R J Lansdown, and W A Brough
BMJ 1994 308: 1023-1025. [Extract] [Full Text]

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