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Here are some nice or interesting sites.  They will be updated on a regular base. Please inform us of your own discoveries at our mail center.

Selected General Surgical Sites

The Belgian Surgery Website - site of our "mother in law", the  KVBH/SRBC.

GBS/VBS accreditations references   -  All references since 96.

Websurg - incredible resource for endoscopic surgeons. Free registration..

American College of Surgery

International College of Surgeons

Medweb Surgery - a great search engine for surgical resources on the Internet.

Another useful pointer to surgical sites from Russia (click on Societies link on this page to discover the russian spelling of your favoutite site!).

Surgical Endoscopy Sites

One of the bests: Laparoscopy.com

SAGES home page - first US page, major surgical endoscopy website.

SLS Home page - second US page - see the B. Dallemagne (Bureau member) award.

EAES Home page - main European Society - much improved recently.

SFCE link - very Frenchy. Currenly few informations. If you are in search or more informative french sites:

IRCAD - EITS teaching center (Prof. Jacques Marescaux, Starsbourg): well known in the BGES..

Club Coelio - an small but innovative french group, reminding the early spirit of the BGES. Regitry-based studies, data input/output through the web (FileMaker). Real world surgery. Another view, needed to translate and analyse the impact of the  (often self-nominated) "experts" views. Really impressive. Data access is restricted to members and approved by the french CNIL.

The GB Cadière Site - Beautifully illustrated  descriptions of several advanced techniques; other good online manuals available at Online laparoscopic manual (Quilici) and Surgyatlas.

General reference and search sites

Pubmed - a "superset" of MEDLINE, with pre-medline records and direct link to some full-text articles; more on this soon. A must!

Medline (Healthgate) - use the ADVANCED search engine!

NCI (National Cancer Institute) - PDQ and Cancerlit

Note: on those three sites, you can search and download references in a structured text format usable by Reference Manager(TM). Use the NLM import format. No fee to link, searches or downloads. Fast and invaluable sites on medical research, publications and guidelines.

Another Medline access, in french.

Industry Partners

ETHICON Endo-surgery  - Main Sponsor

USSC/AutoSuture- Laparoscopy - Major Sponsor