∗Monash University Department of Surgery, Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
†Oesophago-gastric and Bariatric Unit, Department of General Surgery, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
‡Faculty of Medicine, Universitas indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
§Department of Gastroenterology, Royal Melbourne Hospital and University of Melbourne, Australia
||TissuPath, Mount Waverley, Victoria, Australia.
yazmin.joh[email protected].
Author received grants from National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Australia, Johnson and Johnson, grants from Medtronic, grants from GORE, personal fees from GORE, grants from Applied Medical, grants from Apollo Endosurgery, grants and personal fees from Novo Nordisc, personal fees from Merck Sharpe and Dohme, outside the submitted work.
Authorship
Author was extensively involved in the design, data collection, data analysis, presentation, and write up.
Authors were involved in the design, patient recruitment, data collection, and data representation.
Author was involved in histopathology analysis.
Authors were extensively involved in the initial concept, design, supervision, data analysis, presentation, write up, and final approval of the paper.
Acknowledgements: Author want to thank Dr Tim Nottle for his contribution to histopathology analysis.
Ethical and consent statement: Ethics approval was obtained from The Avenue Hospital Human Research and Ethics Committee (HREC) no. 380/16.
All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
An information statement was provided before commencement. Written informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
The authors report no conflicts of interest.
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