[1
]Department of Surgery, Macerata Hospital, Macerata, Italy
[2
]Clinic of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine Geriatrics and Nephrologic
Diseases, St Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, Bologna, Italy
[3
]Emergency Surgery, Maggiore Parma Hospital, Parma, Italy
[4
]Department of General Surgery, Ospedali Riuniti, Bergamo, Italy
[5
]Department of Surgery, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO, USA
[6
]American Board of Surgery, Philadelphia, PA, USA
[7
]University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, USA
[8
]Harvard Medical School, Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery and Surgical Critical
Care Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
[9
]Department of Surgery, UC San Diego Health System, San Diego, CA, USA
[10
]Department of Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond,
VA, USA
[11
]Division of General Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh,
PA, USA
[12
]Department of Primary Care & Emergency Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School
of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
[13
]Department of Abdominal Surgery, University Hospital Meilahti, Helsinki, Finland
[14
]Department of Surgery, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
[15
]Department of Surgery, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Hospital University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, South Africa
[16
]Department of Surgery, Govt Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh, India
[17
]Department of General Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel
[18
]Department of Surgery, Adria Hospital, Adria, Italy
[19
]Department of Surgery, Maggiore Hospital, Bologna, Italy
[20
]Department of Digestive Surgery Faculty of Medicine Pontificia Universidad Católica
de Chile, Santiago, Chile
[21
]Department of Surgery, Sheri-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar, India
[22
]Department of Surgery, Universidad del Valle, Fundacion Valle del Lili, Cali, Colombia
[23
]Division of Trauma Surgery, Hospital de Clinicas - University of Campinas, Campinas,
Brazil
[24
]Emergency Unit, Department of Surgery, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
[25
]Department of General Surgery, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
[26
]Department of Surgery, Tianjin Nankai Hospital, Nankai Clinical School of Medicine,
Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
[27
]Department of Surgery, Pt BDS Post-graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak,
India
[28
]First Clinic of General Surgery, University Hospital /UMBAL/ St George Plovdiv, Plovdiv,
Bulgaria
[29
]Department of Surgery, Edendale Hospital, Pietermaritzburg, Republic of South Africa
[30
]Department of Surgery, Port Shepstone Hospital, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa
[31
]Department of Surgery, Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital Zaria, Kaduna, Nigeria
[32
]Department of Surgery, Mansoura University Hospital, Mansoura, Egypt
[33
]Department of Surgery, Mazzoni Hospital, Ascoli Piceno, Italy
[34
]Department of Surgery, Mellini Hospital, Chiari (BS), Italy
[35
]Department of General and Digestive Surgery, University Hospital, Malaga, Spain
[36
]Department of General Surgery, Lviv Emergency Hospital, Lviv, Ukraine
[37
]Department of Surgery, Ancona University, Ancona, Italy
[38
]Division of General and Emergency Surgery, Faculdade de Medicina da Fundação do ABC,
São Paulo, Santo André, Brazil
[39
]Department of Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan
[40
]Department of Surgery, Ripas Hospital, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
[41
]Clinical Sciences, Regional Hospitals Limbe and Buea, Limbe, Cameroon
[42
]Department of Surgery, Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine,
Seoul, Republic of Korea
[43
]Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery, University of
Ulsan, Seoul, Republic of Korea
[44
]Wagih Ghnnam, Department of Surgery, Khamis Mushayt General Hospital, Khamis Mushayt,
Saudi Arabia
[45
]Boonying Siribumrungwong, Department of Surgery, Thammasat University Hospital, Pathumthani,
Thailand
[46
]Department of Acute and Critical Care Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University,
Tokyo, Japan
[47
]Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Nippon Medical School, Emergency
and Critical Care Center of Nippon Medical School, Tama-Nagayama Hospital, Tokyo,
Japan
[48
]II Catedra de Clinica Quirúrgica, Hospital de Clínicas, San Lorenzo, Paraguay
[49
]Department of Surgery, Cutral Co Clinic, Neuquen, Argentina
[50
]The Shock Trauma and Emergency Medical Center, Matsudo City Hospital, Chiba, Japan
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