The Editorial Board of International Orthopaedics together with Springer Publishing wish to acknowledge the following colleagues who by their commitment and hard work in reviewing papers submitted to International Orthopaedics in 2012 have contributed to the maintenance of the quality of the journal’s published articles and to speeding of the editorial process:

Aaron Biing Ng

Alan Ivković

Alan Ivković

Aleksi Reito

Ales Iglic

Alessandro Masse'

An Sermon

Andreas Leithner

Andrew Quaile

Anthony John Hall

B M Jolles

Bartolomeo Allende

Bernd Wegener

Bin Yu

Boris Hollinger

Carsten Englert

Chen Yh

Chi-Chuan Wu

Christian Bahrs

Christian Luering

Christian Merle

Christian Wurnig

Christian Heisel

Christian-Dominik Peterlein

Christof A. Müller

Christoph EIngartner

Christoph von Schulze Pellengahr

Chunlin Zhang

Claudio Dora

Claus Johansen

Corne van Loon

Cyril Mauffrey

Cyril Toma

Daisuke Araki

Damir Hudetz

Dario Sambunjak

Dario Perugia

David Aronsson

David Backstein

David DeJour

Dean Pakvis

Dieter Rosenbaum

Dirk Wähnert

Dirk Boehm

Domagoj Delimar

Elizaveta Kon

Emmanuel A Audenaert

Enrique Saavedra

Enrique Guerado

Erhan Basad

Francesco Cenni

Francesco Oliva

Francesco Falez

Frederic P. Jacquot

Frédéric A Schuind

Fritz Thorey

Galal Z Said

Georg Gradl

Gerhon Volpin

Gerold Labek

Giles R Scuderi

Giuseppe Musumeci

Goetz Welsch

Goran Augustin

Goran Bicanic

Grey Giddins

Guillaume Demey

Gunther H. Sandmann

Hans van den Wyngaert

Helmut Lill

Henrica Maria Jannetta van der Linden

Herbert Resch

Hisashi Oishi

Hsiao-Li Ma

Ian McDermott

Ian J Leslie

Igor Boric

Jacques Caton

Jake Heiney

James P. Waddell

Jean Legaye

Jean-Pierre Courpied

Jean-Yves Jenny

Jiang Hu

Jin S. Yeom

Jiongjiong Guo

Jiří Skála-Rosenbaum

John S. Gould

Juergen Paletta

Julien Wegrzyn

Julius Bishop

Jung Sub Lee

K Y Chiu

Khaled Hamed Salem

Koji Takayama

Koji Takayama

Lars Johannes Lehmann

Loek Leenen

Lovorka Grgurevic

Lowell Gill

Luis Lopez-Duran

M. Serra

Manuel Muñoz

Marco Manfrini

Marek Synder

Marius M. Scarlat

Masahiro Hasegawa

Mathew David Sewell

Maurice Hinsenkamp

Maximillian Rudert

Melinda Witbreuk

Michael Plecko

Michael A. Mont

Michael Carmont

Michael Lawrence

Mikael Bitsch

Miljenko Franić

Mirco Herbort

Mislav Jelic

Mitsuru Saito

Mohamed Mostafa Hosney El-Sayed

Mohammed Magdy Elbatouty

Moussa Hamadouche

Nicola Maffulli

Nicolo' Martinelli

Nikica Darabos

Nobuyasu Ochiai

Octav Russu

Patricia M. M. B. Fucs

Patrick Sadoghi

Patrick Sadoghi

Patrick Sussmann

Per-Ulf Tunn

Peter Yau

Peter V Giannoudis

Philipp Theodor Funovics

Philippe Hernigou

Pierre Bergmann

Pol Maria Rommens

Radovan Mihelic

Reinhard Windhager

Richard Stern

Richard Villar

Robert Mauck

Rocco Pitto

Ronald Dorotka

Rong Wu

Rong Wu

Sebastian Siebenlist

Sebastian Thormann

Seyedhossein Aharinejad

Shibing Yu

Slobodan Vukicevic

Soheil Najibi

Steven Robert Garfin

Syed Muhammad Awais

Takanobu Sumino

Takanori Iriuchishima

Takao Masato

Tamás Illés

Thilo Floerkemeier

Tim Schepers

Tim Pohlemann

Tina Dusek

TK Kim

Tomas Trc

Tomislav Smoljanovic

Vijay D Shetty

Vikas Khanduja

Vincent Y Ng

Vishwas Paralkar

Vojtech Havlas

Volker Ewerbeck

Wade Smith

Weiping Ren

Wolf R Drescher

Wolfgang Fitz

Wolfgang Schneider

Xiaobing Jin

Zeljka Hundric-Haspl

Zhiyong Fan

Zhongmin Shi