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review and meta-anal ving 1041 patients wit resulted in a lower m Editor: Matthew Weiss. Received: July 24, 2014; revised: November 1, 2014; accepted: November 4, 2014. From the Department of Digestive Surgery (RC, ST, OA, JD, AP), St. Maria Hospital, University of Perugia, Terni; Laparoscopic Surgical Unit (NV), M. Mellini Hospital, Chiari, Italy; University of Notre Dame (DM), Fremantle, Australia; Forlı̀ Hospital (DC), Surgical Oncology, Forlı̀; Department of General and Oncologic Surgery (CR, MFB), University of Perugia, Perugia; Department of Surgical Sciences (AA), University of Torino, Torino, Italy; First Department of Surgery (AF), Hippokration Hospital, University of Athens, Athens, Greece; and Section for Surgical Research (AF), Department of Surgery, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria. Correspondence: Diego Milani, University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, WA, Australia (e-mail: [email protected]). The authors have no funding and conflicts of interest to disclose. Copyright # 2015 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License 4.0, where it is permissible to download, share and reproduce the work in any medium, provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially. ISSN: 0025-7974 DOI: 10.1097/MD.0000000000000334