∗Department of General, Emergency and Robotic Surgery, San Francesco Hospital, Nuoro, Italy
†Centro di Politiche Regolatorie del Farmaco, IRCCS – Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri”, Milano, Italy
‡Department of Surgery, Santissima Trinità Hospital, Cagliari, Italy
§Cambridge Colorectal Unit, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK
¶Department of Surgery, Hospital Universitario Terezinha de Jesus, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil
||Trauma Surgery Unit, Maggiore Hospital Regional Emergency Surgery and Trauma Center, AUSL Bologna Local Health District Bologna, Bologna, Italy
∗∗Department of Digestive Surgery, University Hospital of Caen, Caen cedex, France.
Reprints: Dr. Mauro Podda, MD, Department of Surgery: General, Emergency and Robotic Surgical Unit, San Francesco Hospital, ASSL Nuoro, ATS Sardegna, Via Mannironi, 1, 08100 Nuoro, Italy. E-mail: [email protected].
Contributions of authors: M.P.: Study conception and design, literature search, acquisition, interpretation and analysis of data; drafting and critically revising the article for important intellectual content; and final approval of the version to be published. C.G.: Study conception and design, literature search, acquisition, interpretation and analysis of data; drafting and critically revising the article for important intellectual content; and final approval of the version to be published. N.C.: Interpretation and analysis of data; drafting and critically revising the article for important intellectual content; and final approval of the version to be published. N.F.: Interpretation and analysis of data; critically revising the article for important intellectual content; and final approval of the version to be published. C.A.G.: Interpretation and analysis of data; critically revising the article for important intellectual content; and final approval of the version to be published. A.B.: Interpretation and analysis of data; critically revising the article for important intellectual content; and final approval of the version to be published. A.M.: Interpretation and analysis of data; critically revising the article for important intellectual content; and final approval of the version to be published. R.J.D.: Interpretation and analysis of data; drafting and critically revising the article for important intellectual content; editing and revising the English for the final version to be published; and final approval of the version to be published. S.D.S.: Study conception and design, literature search, acquisition, interpretation and analysis of data; drafting and critically revising the article for important intellectual content; Editing and revising the English for the final version to be published; and final approval of the version to be published.
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