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, USA

Nancy Baxter, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jacques 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)

Michelle de Oliveira, Zurich, Switzerland

Danny Rosin, Tel Aviv, Israel

David Watson, Bedford Park, Australia

Sandra Wong, Lebanon, NH, USA

Cheng-Har Yip, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (BSI)

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

Ahmed Abou-Zamzam, Loma Linda, CA, USA
Hasan Alam, Boston, MA, USA

Yvette Anderson, Västeras, Sweden
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

Stephen Bickler, San Diego, CA, USA
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

Alain Chichom-Mefire, Yaoundé, Cameroon
Shah Hwa Chou, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Danny Chu, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Ian D. Civil, Auckland, New Zealand

D. L. Clarke, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
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

Rochelle Dicker, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Daniel Dindo, Zurich, Switzerland
Gerard Doherty, Boston, MA, USA
Elizabeth Edstrom Elder, Westmead, Australia
Sebastian Ekenze, Enugu, Nigeria

Seraina Faes, Lausanne, Switzerland
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

Miguel Herrera, Mexico City, Mexico
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

Brian Lang, Hong Kong, China
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

Carrie Lubitz, Boston, MA, USA
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

Timothy Pawlik, Columbus, OH, USA
Graeme Pitcher, Iowa City, IA, USA

Henry Rice, Durham, NC, 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 Shrime, Boston, MA, USA
Mark Smithers, Brisbane, Australia

Carmen Solorzano, Nashville, TN, USA
Cosimi Sperti, Padova, Italy

Daniel Steinemann, Basel, Switzerland
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

Tracy S. Wang, Milwaukee, WI, USA
David Watters, Geelong, Australia

Sherry Wren, Palo Alto, CA, USA

Linwah Yip, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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)

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