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Collaborators, Affiliations

¹ General Surgery 3, Department of Surgical, Oncological and Gastroenterological Sciences (DiSCOG), University of Padova, Italy. Electronic address: quocriccardo.bao@unipd.it.
² General Surgery 3, Department of Surgical, Oncological and Gastroenterological Sciences (DiSCOG), University of Padova, Italy.
³ Department of Colorectal Surgical Oncology, Istituto Nazionale Tumori - IRCCS Fondazione G. Pascale, Naples, Italy.
⁴ Department of Surgical Science, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy.
⁵ Department of Radiation Oncology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, IRCCS, Roma, Italy.

Quoc Riccardo Bao et al. Eur J Surg Oncol. 2025 Jul.

. 2025 Jul;51(7):110177.

doi: 10.1016/j.ejso.2025.110177. Epub 2025 May 24.

¹ General Surgery 3, Department of Surgical, Oncological and Gastroenterological Sciences (DiSCOG), University of Padova, Italy. Electronic address: quocriccardo.bao@unipd.it.
² General Surgery 3, Department of Surgical, Oncological and Gastroenterological Sciences (DiSCOG), University of Padova, Italy.
³ Department of Colorectal Surgical Oncology, Istituto Nazionale Tumori - IRCCS Fondazione G. Pascale, Naples, Italy.
⁴ Department of Surgical Science, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy.
⁵ Department of Radiation Oncology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, IRCCS, Roma, Italy.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no competing interests to declare.