About the Authors

Feza Karakayali

Contributed equally to this work with: Feza Karakayali, Ilknur Erenler Bayraktar, Onur Bayraktar, Aras Emre Canda

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Baskent University, Istanbul, Türkiye

Cigdem Arslan

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

cigdemarslan@hotmail.it

‡ CA and TB also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Istanbul Health and Technology University, Istanbul, Türkiye

Tayfun Bisgin

Roles Data curation, Resources, Software

‡ CA and TB also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Türkiye

Ilknur Erenler Bayraktar

Contributed equally to this work with: Feza Karakayali, Ilknur Erenler Bayraktar, Onur Bayraktar, Aras Emre Canda

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Halic University, Istanbul, Türkiye

Onur Bayraktar

Contributed equally to this work with: Feza Karakayali, Ilknur Erenler Bayraktar, Onur Bayraktar, Aras Emre Canda

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Halic University, Istanbul, Türkiye

Aras Emre Canda

Contributed equally to this work with: Feza Karakayali, Ilknur Erenler Bayraktar, Onur Bayraktar, Aras Emre Canda

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Acibadem Kent Hospital, Izmir, Türkiye

Competing Interests

The authors do not have any financial relationship with the sponsor and receive any personal funding. The authors declare that they have no competing interests. The authors of this protocol and other researchers planned to be involved in the study in the future are members of TRCRS which is the official professional society of colorectal surgeons in Turkey and is a non-profit organization.