Editors
Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Sandeep Kumar MS FRCS (Edinburgh) PhD (Wales) MMSc (Newcastle)Consultant Surgeon
Scientist & Epidemiologist
Professor of Surgery Ex King George Medical University Lucknow &
Founder Director AIIMS Bhopal, India
Immediate Past Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Chintamani MS FRCS FACS FICS
Professor & Ex Head, Department of Surgery,
VMMC, Safdurganj Hospital,
New Delhi, India
Editor 2019-2024
Dr. Mallika Tewari MS MCh (Surgical Oncology), MRCSEd
Chief, Hepato-Pancreatico-Biliary and Gastrointestinal Division
Professor, Department of Surgical Oncology
Institute of Medical Sciences
Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
Editor 2022-2027
Dr Satish Dharap MS DNB FICS FMAS
Professor, Department of Surgery,
TN Medical College & BYL Nair Hospital,
Dr AL Nair Marg,
Mumbai, India
Editorial Board 2019-2024
Dr. Arunima Verma MS MRCS FIAGES FMAS
HOD Surgery, Tata Motors Hospital,
Jamshedpur, India
Dr Clement Shirodkar Rajan MS MNAMS FRCS (Glassgow) CSTRCS (Eng) DipLS DHHM FICS FAIS FIAGES
Ex HOD Surgery & Course Director DNB Studies, St. Martha's Hospital,
Senior Consultant & Visiting Surgeon at Major General & Corporate Hospitals, Bengaluru, India
Dr. Deborshi Sharma MS
Advanced Laparoscopic & Bariatric Surgeon
Professor of Surgery, LHMC & Dr. RMLH, New Delhi, India
Dr. G Laxmana Sastry MS FAIS FIMAS FIAGES
Head, General Surgery, Yashoda Hospital
Secunderabad, India
Dr. Vikram Kate MS FRCS (Eng) FRCS (Ed) FRCS (Glasg) PhD (SGE) MAMS FIMSA MASCRS FACS FACG FFST (Ed)
Professor of General and Gastrointestinal Surgery,
Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education & Research ( JIPMER)
Puducherry, India
Editorial Board – Elected 2022-2027
Dr. Kaushik Bhattacharya MS DNB MNAMS FRCS
Specialist Surgery, CAPFs Composite Hospital, BSF Kadamtala,
Siliguri, West Bengal, India
Dr M Kanagaval DNB MRCSEd MNAMS
Consultant and PG Faculty Department of General,
GI and Minimal Access Surgery St Isabel Hospital;
Director, Adonis Obesity Surgery, Adyar Institute of Gastroenterology,
Chennai, India
Dr Rajesh Bhojwani MS MCh
Head, Surgical Gastroenterology & Minimal Access Surgery,
SDM Hospital,
Jaipur, India
Dr Sameer Rege Ashok MS
Professor in General Surgery,
Seth GS Medical College & KEM Hospital
Mumbai, India
Dr Tejaswini Vallabha MS FAIS ACME
Professor. of Surgery BLDE DU's Shri B M Patil Medical College,
Vijayapur, Karnataka, India
Research Design & Statistical Committee
Dr. Anamika Pandey MBBS, DGO, MBA, MPH (UK)
Public Health Specialist
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Dr. Anurag Srivastava MS FRCS PhD
Head, Department of Surgical Sciences Ex
All India Institute of Medical Sciences,
New Delhi, India
Dr. Arun Chaturvedi MS
Professor & Head Department of Surgical Oncology Ex
King George’s Medical University
Lucknow UP India
Dr. GG Agarwal MSc PhD ( Purdue University, USA)
Professor Department of Statistics Ex
Lucknow University,
Lucknow UP India
Dr. L Jeyaseelan MMSc PhD
Professor & Head of Department of Biostatistics
Christian Medical College
Vellore, India
Editorial Advisors
Dr. HS Shukla MS FRCS
Emeritus Professor & Head Ex Department of Surgical Oncology
Institute of Medical Sciences BHU,
Varanasi UP India
Dr. Satish K Shukla MS FRCS FACS
Director, Lakshmi Memorial Hospital and Research Centre, Indore
Professor & Head Surgery MGM Medical College Ex
Indore MP India
Dr. MC Misra MS, FRCS (Glasgow), FAMS FACS (USA), FCLS (India), Hon. FRCS (Glasgow), D.Sc. (Hon. Causa), Hon. FRCS Edin
Professor & Head Department of Surgical Disciplines Ex
Director Ex All India Institute of Medical Sciences
New Delhi, India
Dr. Shushila Sripad
Visiting Senior Consultant,
R N Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Overseas Editorial Advisors
Dr. Arun Dhir MS FRACS
Consultant Surgical Gastro-enterologist,
Robotic & Bariatric Surgeon,
Senior Lecturer Monash University,
Melbourne, Australia
Dr Hiram S Cody III MD
Attending Surgeon, Breast Service,
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center,
Professor of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, USA
Dr. Ismail Jatoi MD FRCS
Professor and Head, Surgical Oncology and Endocrine Surgery,
University of Texas Health,
San Antonio, Texas, USA
Dr Krishnan Raghavendran MD FRCS
Professor of Surgery Chairman Acute Care Surgery
University of Michigan Health Systems
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Dr Rachel Hargest MD FRCS
Clinical Senior Lecturer in Colorectal Surgery,
University of Cardiff,
Cardiff, Wales, UK
Dr Reinard Bittner MD FRCS
President, International Endo Hernia Society,
Chief Editor International Journal of Hernia and Abdominal Wall Surgery (IJHAWS),
Stuttgart, Germany
Dr Robert E Mansel MS FRCS
Professor and Head Surgery Ex,
University of Wales College of Medicine
Cardiff, Wales UK
Dr Ronald V Maier MD FACS FRCS Ed (Hon) FCSHK (Hon) FCCS (Hon) FISS (Hon)
Professor and Vice Chair of Surgery, University of Washington School of Medicine, Surgeon-in-Chief, Harborview Medical Center,
Seattle,USA
Dr Takao Ohki MD PhD
Chairman, Department of Surgery, Professor and Chief, Division of Vascular Surgery,
Jikei University School of Medicine,
Tokyo, Japan
Dr. Vijayshil Gautam MBBS Dip IMC, FRCS, FRCEM, FRCP
First Professor of Surgery,
Trauma and Emergency Care
London UK
Associate Editors
Dr. Atia Zaka-ur-Rab
Professor, Department of Surgery JLN Medical College
Aligarh Muslim University,
Aligarh, UP, India
Dhananjaya Sharma MS FRCS FRCS FRCS PhD DSc
Professor & Head Department of Surgery,
NSB Medical College
Jabalpur MP India
Dr. Dilip Gupta MS FASI FARSI
Director Professor and Head Department of Surgery
Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences,
Sevagram, Wardha
Maharashtra, India
Dr. G Raghavendra Prasad MS
Professor of Pediatric Surgery
Deccan College of Medical Sciences
Hyderabad, India
Dr. K Lakshman MS
Shanthi Hospital & Research Center,
Bangaluru, India
Dr. Raja Kalayarasan MS
Consultant GI Surgeon & Associate Professor of Surgical Gastroenterology,
JIPMER
Pondicherry, India
Dr. Ramanuj Mukherjee MS DNB MNAMS FAMS MRCS FACS
Assistant Professor
RG Kar Medical College & Hospital, Kolkata
Kolkata West Bengal India
Dr. S George Barreto MBBS, MS, PhD
HPB and Oesophagogastric Surgery
Flinders Medical Centre
Adelaide, Australia
Subodh Kumar MS
Professor of Surgery,
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, JPN Apex Trauma Center,
New Delhi, India
Dr. Sudeep R Shah MS, FRCS (Edin), DNB Diploma in Laparoscopic Surgery (Strasbourg)
Fellowship in HPB Surgery and Liver Transplant (Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Royal Free Hospital)
Consultant GI Surgery, PD Hinduja Hospital and Medical Research Centre, Mahim, Mumbai , India
Dr. Surajeet Bhattacharya MS MCh
Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon,
Sahara & Ajanta Hospitals,
Lucknow, UP, India
Sectional Editors
Association of Colon & Rectal Surgeons of India – ACRSI
Dr Brij Bhushan Agarwal MS
Consultant Surgeon Sir Gangaram Hospital,
New Delhi, India
Association of Genito Urinary Surgeons of India - AGUSI
Dr Y M Fazil Marickar MS PhD FAMS
Principal and Professor of Surgery Mount Zion Medical College,
Adoor Kerala India
Association of Minimal Access Surgeons of India - AMASI
Tamonas Chaudhuri MBBS, MS. FAIS, FMAS, FACS
Professor of Surgery
Burdwan Medical College,
West Bengal, India
Association of Surgeons of Rural India - ASRI
Dr. Rajashekar Mohan MBBS, MS, DNB, MNAMS, FACS, FAIS, FICS, FMAS, FACRSI
Professor & Head, Department of General Surgery AIIMS,
Mangalagiri, Andhra Pradesh India
Indian Association of Endocrine Surgeons - IAES
Dr Pooja Ramakant MS MCh
Associate Professor, Department of Endocrine Surgery,
Lucknow, India
Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons - IAPS
Dr Ashoke Kumar Basu MS (Gen Surg), MCh (Ped Surg), DNB FICS MAMS
Emeritus Professor of Pediatric Surgery, Institute of Child Health
Kolkata, India
Indian Association of Surgical Gasteroenterologist - IASG
Dr Rajneesh Kumar Singh MS, DNB, MCh
Professor, Dept. of Surgical Gastroenterology,
Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS),
Lucknow UP India
Indian Association of Surgical Oncology – IASO
Dr Shaikat Gupta MS FRCS Edin
Director Surgical Oncology, Apollo Hospital,
Kolkata, India
Association of Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgeons of India - ATVSI
Dr Usha R Dalal
Professor Surgery Government Medical College
Chandigarh, India
Indian Association of Traumatology and Critical Care - IATCC
Dr. Vineet Kumar MBBS; DNB (Surgery); FNB (Trauma Care)
Assistant Professor of Surgery Department of Surgery.
LTM Medical College,
Sion, Mumbai India
Association of Breast Surgeons of India - ABSI
Dr SP Somashekhar MS MCh FRCS
Surgical Oncologist, Manipal Hospital,
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Association of Armed Forces Surgeons - AAFS
Brig Pankaj P Rao MS (Gen. Surg), FMAS, FAIS
Professor & Head Department of Surgery
Armed Forces Medical College,
Wanworie, Pune, India
Governing Council Association of Surgeons of India 2022
President – Dr G Siddesh MS, Mysuru, India
President Elect – Dr Sanjay Kumar Jain MS, Bhopal, India
Immediate Past President - Dr Abhay Dalvi MS, Mumbai, India
Honorary Secretary – Dr Pratapsinh A Varute MS, Kolhapur, India
Honorary Treasurer – Dr Bhanwar Lal Yadav MS, Jaipur, India
Director Academic Council – Dr Santhosh John Abhram MS, Kochi, India
Director Social Welfare Council – Dr D Maruthu Pandian MS, Madurai, India
Secretary Head Quarter – Dr. PV Ramana Murthy MS
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