3rd Department of Surgery at 1st Medical Faculty of Charles University Motol University Hospital Prague Czech Republic

Academic Department of Abdominal Wall Surgery Royal Devon University Foundation Healthcare Trust North Devon District Hospital Barnstaple UK

Centre for 3D Models of Health and Disease Division of Surgery and Interventional Science University College London London UK

Department for General and HPB Surgery and Liver Transplantation Ghent University Hospital Ghent Belgium

Department of Abdominal Surgery University Hospital Gasthuisberg KU Leuven Leuven Belgium

Department of Clinical Sciences Malmö Faculty of Medicine Lund University Lund Sweden

Department of Gastrointestinal and Hepatic Diseases University of Copenhagen Herlev Hospital Copenhagen Denmark

Department of Health Sciences Faculty of Medicine Masaryk University Brno Czech Republic

Department of Surgery OLVG Hospital Amsterdam Amsterdam The Netherlands

Department of Surgery Rijnstate Hospital Arnhem Arnhem The Netherlands

Department of Surgery Skåne University Hospital Malmö Sweden

Department of Surgery Spire Murrayfield Hospital Edinburgh UK

Department of Surgery University of Genoa Genoa Italy

Hamburg Hernia Centre Department of Hernia and Abdominal Wall Surgery Helios Mariahilf Hospital Hamburg Teaching Hospital of the University of Hamburg Hamburg Germany

IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute Milan Italy

Policlinico San Martino IRCCS Genoa Italy

Reims Champagne Ardennes Department of General Digestive and Endocrine Surgery Robert Debré University Hospital Reims France

The Czech National Centre for Evidence Based Healthcare and Knowledge Translation Institute of Biostatistics and Analyses Faculty of Medicine Masaryk University Brno Czech Republic

Unit of Innovation in Minimally Invasive Surgery Department of General and Digestive Surgery University Hospital Virgen del Rocio University of Sevilla Sevilla Spain

University of Exeter Medical School Exeter UK

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