About the Authors

Maria Conticchio

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Conticchio, Vincenzo Papagni

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

maria_cont@hotmail.it

Affiliation General Surgery, Policlinico di Bari, Bari, Italy

Vincenzo Papagni

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Conticchio, Vincenzo Papagni

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation General Surgery, Policlinico di Bari, Bari, Italy

Margherita Notarnicola

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation General Surgery, Policlinico di Bari, Bari, Italy

Antonella Delvecchio

Roles Resources, Software

Affiliation General Surgery, Policlinico di Bari, Bari, Italy

Umberto Riccelli

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation General Surgery, Policlinico di Bari, Bari, Italy

Michele Ammendola

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences, General Surgery, Magna Græcia University, Medicine School of Germaneto, Catanzaro, Italy

Giuseppe Currò

Roles Software

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences, General Surgery, Magna Græcia University, Medicine School of Germaneto, Catanzaro, Italy

Patrick Pessaux

Roles Supervision

Affiliation IRCAD-IHU, General, Digestive, and Endocrine Surgery, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France

Nicola Silvestris

Roles Supervision, Validation, Visualization

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this study.

Affiliations Medical Oncology Unit, IRCCS Cancer Institute "Giovanni Paolo II", Bari, Italy, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, University of Bari ‘Aldo Moro’, Bari, Italy

Riccardo Memeo

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this study.

Affiliation Department of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary (HPB) Surgery, Miulli Hospital, Acquaviva delle Fonti, Bari, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors declare no competitive interests.