About the Authors

Mohammad Reza Keramati

Contributed equally to this work with: Mohammad Reza Keramati, Ali Abbaszadeh-Kasbi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mr-keramati@tums.ac.ir

Affiliations Division of Colorectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Colorectal Surgery Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Ali Abbaszadeh-Kasbi

Contributed equally to this work with: Mohammad Reza Keramati, Ali Abbaszadeh-Kasbi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Colorectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Colorectal Surgery Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Amir Keshvari

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Colorectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Colorectal Surgery Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Seyed Mohsen Ahmadi-Tafti

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Division of Colorectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Colorectal Surgery Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Behnam Behboudi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Division of Colorectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Colorectal Surgery Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Alireza Kazemeini

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Division of Colorectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Colorectal Surgery Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Mohammad Sadegh Fazeli

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Division of Colorectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Colorectal Surgery Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.