Review of general surgery 1984-85.

This review of general surgery has a distinctly abdominal flavour, with sections on the acute abdomen, inflammatory bowel disease, large bowel tumours, and diseases of the biliary system and pancreas. However, I also include peripheral vascular disease, the breast and experimental surgery as topics for discussion. As usual, the papers reviewed are those that particularly caught the author's eye during the year and the great bulk of the references refer to 1984 publications.