Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Orthopaedic Surgery- University of California, San Francisco; San Francisco, CA USA. Electronic address: erik.hansen@ucsf.edu.
• ² The First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, China.
• ³ Department of Orthopaedics, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA.
• ⁴ International Center for Limb Lengthening, The Rubin Institute for Advanced Orthopedics, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
• ⁵ Centre for Musculoskeletal Surgery, St. George University Teaching Hospital, Székesfehérvár, Hungary.
• ⁶ Orthopaedic Department, Adult Reconstruction division, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX.
• ⁷ Vreden National Medical Research Center of Traumatology and Orthopedics, Ministry of Health of Russian Federation, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation.
• ⁸ University of Alberta; Northern Lights Hospital, Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada.
• ⁹ Department of Traumatology and Orthopedic Surgery, Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe, Valencia, Spain.
• ¹⁰ Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Division of Hip and Knee Reconstruction, Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN, USA.
• ¹¹ Bone and Joint Infection Unit. Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Hospital Universitari MútuaTerrassa, Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain.
• ¹² Thomas Jefferson University.
• ¹³ Weill Cornell Medical College, Dept. of Orthopedics & Sports Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston TX, USA.
• ¹⁴ Wakefield Orthopaedic Clinic; Adelaida, SA Australia.
• ¹⁵ Cappagh National Orthopaedic Hospital.
• ¹⁶ Department of Orthopedics, Adana City Training and Research Hospital, University of Health Sciences, Adana, Turkey.
• ¹⁷ Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Helios ENDO-Klinik, Holstenstr., Hamburg, Germany.
• ¹⁸ Italian Hospital from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• ¹⁹ Hunter Medical Research Institute, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia.
• ²⁰ Department of Anatomical, Histological, Forensic Medicine and Orthopaedics Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
• ²¹ Menoufia University Hospitals, Shebin El Kom, Egypt.
• ²² All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, India.
• ²³ University of Exeter.
• ²⁴ St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne.
• ²⁵ Dr Martin Pinsger Facharzt fur Orthopadie und Orthopadische Chirurgie.
• ²⁶ Panorama Orthopedic & Spine Center, Golden, Colorado USA.
• ²⁷ Santa Casa de Batatais, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
• ²⁸ Orthopaedics, St. Martin's Clinic, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
• ²⁹ Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
• ³⁰ Department of Surgery, Division of Orthopaedics, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
• ³¹ Dr. Manninger Jenő Trauma Center, Budapest, Hungary.
• ³² Department of Orthopaedics, University Hospital Queen Giovanna, Sofia, Bulgaria.
• ³³ Department of Immunology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States.
• ³⁴ Department of Orthopaedics, Martini Hospital, Groningen, Netherlands.
• ³⁵ Cajuru University Hospital-PUCPR and São Marcelino Champagnat Hospital, Brazil.
• ³⁶ Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University; Aarhus, Denmark.
• ³⁷ Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, West Virginia University, Morgantown WV.
• ³⁸ Hospital Internacional La Catolica; San Jose, Costa Rica.
• ³⁹ Indraparastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, India.
• ⁴⁰ Golestan Rheumatology Research Center, Biomedical Research Institute, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran.
• ⁴¹ Department of Orthopedic Surgery-Lifebridgehealth; Baltimore-Sinai Hospital AND University of Maryland Orthopedic Surgery.
• ⁴² OrthoCarolina Hip and Knee Center, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
• ⁴³ The Second Hospital of Jilin University.
• ⁴⁴ Universitatsklinikum GieBen.
• ⁴⁵ Universidad Militar Nueva Granda; Bogota, Columbia.
• ⁴⁶ University of Porto.
• ⁴⁷ School of Medicine, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran.
• ⁴⁸ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
• ⁴⁹ Department of Infectious Diseases, Karlstad Hospital and Centre for Clinical Research, Karlstad, Sweden.
• ⁵⁰ Azienda Ospedaliera Maggiore della Carita.
• ⁵¹ Potomac Valley Hospital, WVU Medicine, Keyser, West Virginia, USA.
• ⁵² Russian Scientific Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics named after R.R. Vreden.
• ⁵³ Joint Research OLVG, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• ⁵⁴ Dept. of Sport Medicine and Adult Reconstructive Surgery, The Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School.