Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Medicine DIMED Pathology and Cytopathology Unit, University of Padova, Padova, Italy Tumor Registry of the Veneto Region, Padova, Italy.
• ² Miraca Life Sciences Research Institute, Irving, Texas, USA University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Texas, USA.
• ³ Department of Medicine, Michael E. De Bakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.
• ⁴ Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Parma, Parma, Italy.
• ⁵ Institute Alfa of Gastroenterology, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
• ⁶ Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoungnam, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea.
• ⁷ Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Infectious Diseases, Otto-von-Guericke University, University Medical Center of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany.
• ⁸ Department of Medicine, Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan.
• ⁹ State Scientific Medical Research Institute for Northern Problems of Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
• ¹⁰ Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.