About the Authors

Gloria Pelizzo

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

gloria.pelizzo@gmail.com

Affiliation Pediatric Surgery Unit, Children’s Hospital, Istituto Mediterraneo di Eccellenza Pediatrica, Palermo, Italy

Marinella Guazzotti

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Pediatric Surgery Unit, Department of the Mother and Child Health, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy

Catherine Klersy

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Biometry & Clinical Epidemiology, Scientific Direction, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy

Ghassan Nakib

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Paediatric Surgery, Medclinic Middle East, Mediclinic City Hospital, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Federico Costanzo

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Pediatric Surgery Unit, Department of the Mother and Child Health, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy

Erika Andreatta

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Pediatric Surgery Unit, Department of the Mother and Child Health, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy

Gabrio Bassotti

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Gastroenterology Section, Department of Medicine, University of Perugia Medical School, Perugia, Italy

Valeria Calcaterra

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Pediatric Unit, Department of the Mother and Child Health Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo and Department of Internal Medicine University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.