Part 1 Symposium - keeping strictures open: biliary stents, D.E.F. Tweedle and D.F. Martin; stents for urethral strictures, E. Milroy; the role of intracoronary stents, U. Sigwart. Part 2 Invited contributions: the surgical patient with cardiac disease, T. Treasure and J.P. van Besouw; surgery of the spleen in the tropics, R.G. Shirahatti; long-term venous access, J.L. Peters; the management of acute pain, J.E. Peacock; tumour immunology, P.J. Guillou; paediatric surgical emergencies, J.D. Atwell; emergency gynaecology, T.C. Li and I.D. Cooke.
