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  1. Department of Surgery, Sant’Antonio Abate Hospital, Gallarate, Italy

    Francesco Pata

  2. Department of Medical, Surgical, Neurological, Metabolic and Ageing Sciences, Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Naples, Italy

    Gianluca Pellino

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Italian Surgical Research Group (ItSURG)

  • Francesco Pata
  • , Michael F. Bath
  • , Dmitri Nepogodiev
  • , Sandro Pasquali
  • , Valeria Farina
  • , Laura Gavagna
  • , Pietro Maria Naccari
  • , Bruno Sensi
  • , Andrea Simioni
  • , Alessandro Sgrò
  •  & Gianluca Pellino

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No procedures were conducted by the authors on patients, there was no need of informed consent. This letter was in agreement with the Good Clinical Practice.

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Members of Italian Surgical Research Group (ItSURG) are listed in the Appendix.

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Collaborating authors (Italian Surgical Research Group ItSURG)

Francesco Pata1, Michael F. Bath2, Dmitri Nepogodiev3, Sandro Pasquali4, Valeria Farina5, Laura Gavagna6, Pietro Maria Naccari7, Bruno Sensi8, Andrea Simioni10, Alessandro Sgrò9, and Gianluca Pellino11

1Department of Surgery, Sant’Antonio Abate Hospital, Gallarate, Italy.

2Department of Surgery, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

3Academic Department of Surgery, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TH, UK.

4Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori di Milano, Milano.

5Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.

6Department of Morphology,Surgery and Experimental Medicine, University of Ferrara, Italy.

7University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy.

8Department of Surgery, Tor Vergata University Hospital, Rome, Italy.

9University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.

10University of Padua, Padua, Italy.

11Department of Medical, Surgical, Neurological, Metabolic, and Ageing Sciences, Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Naples, Italy.

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Pata, F., Pellino, G. & Italian Surgical Research Group (ItSURG). ItSURG: a challenge for surgical research in Italy. Updates Surg 69, 551–552 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13304-017-0434-z

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