D.J. DU PLESSIS LECTURE

 

The handless surgeon: 29th D. J. du Plessis Lecture of the Surgical Research Society of Southern Africa, delivered in Pretoria, June 2011

 

 

David J. J. Muckart

F.R.C.S., M.Med.Sci., Cert. Crit. Care (s.A.); Department of Surgery, Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal

 

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