Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Surgery, Macerata Hospital, Macerata, Italy
  • 2 Department of Surgery and Obstetrics/Gynaecology, Regional Hospital, Limbe, Cameroon
  • 3 Department of Biomedical Sciences and Public Health, Unit of Hygiene, Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
  • 4 Trauma Service, Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital and Department of Surgery, Nelson R Mandela School of Clinical Medicine, Durban, South Africa
  • 5 Department of Surgery, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates
  • 6 Department of Surgery, College of Health Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
  • 7 General Surgery Department, Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital, Bergamo, Italy
  • 8 Trauma and Acute Care Surgery Unit, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
  • 9 Department of Traumatology, John Hunter Hospital and University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW Australia
  • 10 Department of General Surgery, Hospital San Juan de Dios de La Serena, La Serena, Chile
  • 11 Department of General Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel
  • 12 Acute Care Surgery at The Queen's Medical Center, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, USA
  • 13 Department of Surgery, Maggiore Hospital, Bologna, Italy
  • 14 Department of Surgery, Hospital Clínico Universitario, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
  • 15 Department of General Surgery, Kuala Krai Hospital, Kuala Krai, Kelantan Malaysia
  • 16 Emergency Department, Niguarda Ca' Granda Hospital, Milan, Italy
  • 17 Department of Surgery, UC San Diego Medical Center, San Diego, USA
  • 18 Emergency Surgery Unit, San Filippo Neri's Hospital, Rome, Italy
  • 19 Department of Surgery, Tbilisi State Medical University, Kipshidze Central University Hospital, T'bilisi, Georgia
  • 20 Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
  • 21 Department of Surgery, Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, Russian Federation
  • 22 Department of Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA USA
  • 23 Division of Trauma Surgery, Department of Surgery, School of Medical Sciences, University of Campinas (Unicamp), Campinas, SP Brazil
  • 24 Department of General Surgery, Mansoura Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt
  • 25 Department of Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
  • 26 Department of Surgery, Hospital Universitário Terezinha de Jesus, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas e da Saúde de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil
  • 27 Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Giessen, Giessen, Germany
  • 28 Department of Surgery, St. Josef Hospital, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
  • 29 Department of Surgery, Ilsan Paik Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine, Goyang, Republic of Korea
  • 30 Division of Acute Care Surgery and Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery, Los Angeles County and University of Southern California Medical Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA USA
  • 31 Department of General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Erzincan University, Erzincan, Turkey
  • 32 Clinic for Emergency Surgery, Medical Faculty University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
  • 33 Department of Surgery, Assia Medical Group, Tel Aviv University Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • 34 Department of Emergency Surgery, Mozyr City Hospital, Mozyr, Belarus
  • 35 Departments of Surgery, Critical Care Medicine, and the Regional Trauma Service, Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, AB Canada
  • 36 Department of General Surgery, Division of Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel
  • 37 Department of Primary Care and Emergency Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
  • 38 Department of Surgery, Edendale Hospital, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
  • 39 Abdominal Center, University Hospital Meilahti, Helsinki, Finland
  • 40 II Cátedra de Clínica Quirúrgica, Hospital de Clínicas, Facultad de Ciencias Medicas, Universidad Nacional de Asuncion, Asuncion, Paraguay
  • 41 Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA USA
  • 42 Department of Surgery, Pt BDS Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak, India
  • 43 Department of Surgery, Radiology, University Hospital of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica
  • 44 Department of Surgery, University of Colorado, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO USA
  • 45 Department of Surgery, Emergency Hospital of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
  • 46 Department of Surgery, University of Ilorin, Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, Nigeria
  • 47 Department of Surgery, King Abdullah University Hospital, Irbid, Jordan
  • 48 Department of Surgery and Critical Care, Universidad del Valle, Fundación Valle del Lili, Cali, Colombia
  • 49 Division of Emergency and Trauma Surgery, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
  • 50 Department of General and Emergency Surgery, Riga East University Hospital 'Gailezers', Riga, Latvia
  • 51 Emergency Post-operative Department, Otavio de Freitas Hospital and Hosvaldo Cruz Hospital, Recife, Brazil
  • 52 General Surgery Department, Medical University, University Hospital St George, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
  • 53 Department of Aeromedical Services for Emergency and Trauma Care, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Ehime, Japan
  • 54 Department of General Surgery, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Tan Tock Seng, Singapore
  • 55 Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Stavanger University Hospital, Stravenger, Norway
  • 56 First Department of Surgery - Department of Abdominal, Thoracic Surgery and Traumatology, General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
  • 57 Department of Surgery, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  • 58 Trauma, Emergency Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA
  • 59 Trauma and Emergency Surgery Department, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan City, Taiwan
  • 60 Department of Surgery, Sheri-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar, India
  • 61 Department of Trauma Surgery, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Australia
  • 62 Department of Surgery, Mosc Medical College, Kolenchery, Cochin India
  • 63 Department of Emergency Surgery, Maggiore Hospital, Parma, Italy
World J Emerg Surg, 2017;12:36.
PMID: 28785302 DOI: 10.1186/s13017-017-0148-z

Abstract

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1186/s13017-017-0141-6.].

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