∗Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Department of Surgery, and Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA
†Temple University Hospital, Department of Surgery, Philadelphia PA
‡University of Alabama School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Birmingham AL
§Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Surgery, Boston MA
¶Laboratory for Surgical and Metabolic Research, Boston MA
||Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Surgery, Boston MA
∗∗Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Department of Surgery, Boston MA
††University of Southern California, Department of Surgery, Los Angeles CA
‡‡Medical College of Wisconsin, Department of Surgery, Milwaukee WI
§§Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Department of Surgery, Nashville TN.
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A portion of this work was presented in abstract form at the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons annual meeting in Orlando, FL.
This work is a collaborative multi-institutional effort and would not have been possible without the contributions of multiple individuals at each study site. All authors contributed to the study design, data acquisition, manuscript drafting and revision, and all authors approved the final version of the manuscript. Drs. Heather Wachtel and Carrie Lubitz accept direct responsibility for the manuscript.
The authors report no conflicts of interest.
