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Guarantor: CDR Todd J. Morris, MC USNR

Contributors: CDR Todd J. Morris, MC USNR*; LCDR Thomas P. Davis, MC USNR^

*Department of General Surgery, Naval Medical Center, San Diego, 34800 Bob Wilson Drive, San Diego, CA 92134.

^Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, 69 Butler Street SE, Atlanta, GA 30303.

Reprint requests: CDR Todd J. Morris, MC USNR, Department of General Surgery, Naval Medical Center, San Diego, CA 92134.

This manuscript was received for review in March 1999. The revised manuscript was accepted for publication in July 1999.

Reprint & Copyright (c) by Association of Military Surgeons of U.S., 2000.