About the Authors

Martin Almquist

martin.almquist@med.lu.se

Affiliation Dept of Surgery, Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden; Institution of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Regula S. von Allmen

Affiliation Clinic for Vascular Surgery, Kantonsspital St Gallen, Switzerland

Dan Carradice

Affiliation Academic Vascular Surgical Unit, Hull York Medical School, Hull, United Kingdom

Steven J. Oosterling

Affiliation Dept of Surgery, Spaarne Gasthuis Hospital, Haarlem, The Netherlands

Kirsty McFarlane

Affiliation Associate Editor, BJS, John Wiley and Sons, Oxford, United Kingdom

Bas Wijnhoven

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Erasmus MC–University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

All authors had financial support from the BJS/Wiley and Sons for the submitted work; there were no other financial relationships with any organisations that might have an interest in the submitted work in the previous three years; and no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: BW SO DC MA RvA. Data curation: MA RvA KM. Formal analysis: MA RvA. Investigation: BW SO DC MA RvA KM. Methodology: BW SO DC MA RvA. Project administration: KM. Writing – original draft: MA RvA. Writing – review & editing: BW SO DC MA RvA KM.