Conflicts of Interest: Recognition, Disclosure, and Management

* Shelburne, VT, USA **Correspondence address: Roger S Foster Jr, MD, FACS, 613 South Forty Rd, Shelburne, VT 05482, USA. Received January 8, 2003; accepted January 8, 2003. ☆No competing interests declared. Presented at the American College of Surgeons 88th Annual Clinical Congress, San Francisco, CA, October 2002.