Editorial Office of World Journal of Surgery
World Journal of Surgery
2541 S.W. Montgomery Drive
Portland, OR 97201
USA
Phone: +1 971 275 29 18
Fax: +1 503 274 94 33
E-mail: worldjsurg@ohsu.edu
Editorial Board of World Journal of Surgery
Editor in Chief
Julie Ann Sosa
University of California at San Francisco-UCSF
Dept. of Surgery
513 Parnassus Ave, Suite S320
Box 0104
San Francisco, CA 94143
USA
Managing Editor
Laura Shearer, Portland, OR, USA
Associate Editors
Reid Adams, Charlottesville, VA, USAJacques Belghiti, Clichy, France
Timothy Hardcastle, Durban, South Africa
Hitoshi Katai, Tokyo, Japan
Anthony Kim, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Charles Mock, Seattle, WA, USA
Janice Pasieka, Calgary, Alb., Canada(IAES)
Statistical Consultant
Kyle Hart, Portland, OR, USA
Associate Managing Editor
Rubén Cham, Puerto Vallarta, México
Visual Abstract Editors
Keith Hansen, San Francisco, CA, USA
Caroline Melhado, San Francisco, CA, USA
Editorial Board
Hasan Alam, Boston, MA, USA
Ahmad Assalia, Haifa, Israel
Chad Ball, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Zsolt Balogh, Newcastle, Australia
Savio George Barreto, Adelaide, Australia
Hasan F. Batirel, Istanbul, Turkey
Guido Beldi, Bern, Switzerland
Walter Biffl, Denver, CO, USA
Kenneth D. Boffard, Johannesburg, South Africa
L.D. Britt, Norfolk, VA, USA
F. Charles Brunicardi, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Jan Brunkwall, Cologne, Germany
Ines Buccimazza, Durban, South Africa
Markus W. Büchler, Heidelberg, Germany
Ruth Bush, Temple, TX, USA
Angelo Caretta, Milan, Italy
Sally Carty, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
François Cauchy, Paris, France
Ivan Cecconello, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Albert Chan, Hong Kong, China
Andrew Chang, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Mark Cheetham, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom
Shah Hwa Chou, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Thomas Cogbill, La Crosse, WI, USA
Raul Coimbra, San Diego, CA, USA
Saxon Connor, Christchurch, New Zealand
Sayandev DasGupta, Kolkata, India
Andrew deBeaux, Edinburgh, Scotland
Elias Degiannis, Johannesburg, South Africa
Conor P. Delaney, Cleveland, OH, USA
Gerard Doherty, Boston, MA, USA
Elizabeth Edstrom Elder, Westmead, Australia
Sebastian Ekenze, Enugu, Nigeria
Piero Marco Fisichella, Maywood, IL, USA
Andrea Frilling, Essen, Germany
Takashi Fujimura, Kanazawa, Japan
Markus Furrer, Chur, Switzerland
Michael Gagner, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Robert Goldman, Portland, OR, USA
Wojciech Gorecki, Krakow, Poland
Adam Gyedu, Kumasi, Ghana
Larry Hadley, Durban, South Africa
Zane Hammoud, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Imran Hassan, Iowa City, IA, USA
W. Scott Helton, Seattle, WA, USA
Guo-Wei He, Tiajin, China
Peter Henke, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Andrew Hill, Auckland, New Zealand
Tom Horan, Brasilia, Brazil
Martin Hubner, Lausanne, Switzerland
Seiji Ito, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Yasuhiro Ito, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Japan
Jacob R. Izbicki, Hamburg, Germany
Samir Johna, Fontana, CA, USA
Lillian Kao, Houston, TX, USA
Christoph Kettelhack, Basel, Switzerland
Saboor Khan, Coventry, United Kingdom
Young-Woo Kim, Gyeonggido, Republic of Korea
Yoram Kluger, Haifa, Israel
Yasuhiro Kodera, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Norihiro Kokudo, Tokyo, Japan
Doron Kopelman, Caesarea, Israel
Rifat Latifi, Tucson, AZ, USA
Simon Law, Hong Kong, China
Wai-Lun Law, Hong Kong, China
Peter Licht, Odense, Denmark
Olle Ljungqvist, Örebro, Sweden
Chung Yau Lo, Hong Kong, China
Dileep Lobo, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Gael MacLean, Oxford, United Kingdom
Ronald V. Maier, Seattle, WA, USA
Malek G. Massad, Chicago, IL, USA
Haggi Mazeh, Jerusalem, Israel
Kelly McQueen, Madison, WI, USA
Sarkis H. Meterissian, Montreal, QC, Canada
Barbra S. Miller, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Pal A. Naess, Oslo, Norway
Rowan Parks, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Marco G. Patti, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Graeme Pitcher, Iowa City, IA, USA
Jean-Marc Regimbeau, Amiens, France
John Reynolds, Dublin, Ireland
Alvaro Sanabria, Medellin, Colombia
Thomas M. Scalea, Baltimore, MD, USA
Markus Schaefer, Zurich, Switzerland
Jonathan Serpell, Melbourne, Australia
Mark Smithers, Brisbane, Australia
Cosimi Sperti, Padova, Italy
Andrew Tambyraja, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Masanori Terashima, Shizouka, Japan
Sarah Thompson, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Selman Uranues, Graz, Austria
David Van der Zee, Utrecht, Netherlands
Jan van Lanschot, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Menno Vriens, Utrecht, Netherlands
Danielle Saunders Walsh, Greenville, NC, USA
David Watters, Geelong, Australia
Takaki Yoshikawa, Yokohama, Japan
Omar Youssef, Cairo, Egypt
Victor Zaydfudim, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Urs Zingg, Zurich, Switzerland
Editors in Chief, Emeriti
Marshall J. Orloff, San Diego, CA, USA (Volumes 1 - 4)
James D. Hardy, (deceased) Jackson, MI, USA (Volumes 5 and 6)
Samuel A. Wells Jr., St. Louis, MO, USA (Volumes 7 - 16)
Ronald K. Tompkins, Los Angeles, CA, USA (Volumes 17 - 28)
John G. Hunter, Portland, OR, USA (Voumes 29 - 41)