Digestive Surgery presents a comprehensive overview in the field of gastrointestinal surgery. Interdisciplinary in scope, the journal keeps the specialist aware of advances in all fields that contribute to improvements in the diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal disease. Particular emphasis is given to articles that evaluate not only recent clinical developments, especially clinical trials and technical innovations such as new endoscopic and laparoscopic procedures, but also relevant translational research. Each contribution is carefully aligned with the need of the digestive surgeon. Thus, the journal is an important component of the continuing medical education of surgeons who want their practice to benefit from a familiarity with new knowledge in all its dimensions.

Editor-in-Chief
Kevin C.P. Conlon – The University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
 
 
Consultant Editors
Dan G. Duda – Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
D.J. Gouma – Academic Medical Center AMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Kyoichi Takaori – Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
J. John B. van Lanschot – Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
 
 
Associate Editors
Mustapha Adham – Edouard Herriot Hospital, HCL, Lyon, France
Nobutoshi Ando – International Goodwill Hospital, Yokohama, Japan
J. Calvin Coffey – University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
Marco Del Chiaro – University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA
Matteo Donadon – Humanitas Research Hospital, Milan, Italy
C.L. Donohoe – Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Beat Gloor – University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Ho-Seong Han – Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Daniel Hartmann – Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
Calogero Iacono – University of Verona, Verona, Italy
Norihiro Kokudo – National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
John R.T. Monson – Florida Hospital Orlando, Orlando, FL, USA
Shoji Natsugoe – Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan
Dermot O’Toole – St James’s Hospital and Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Rowan Parks – Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Roberto Salvia – l’Università di Verona, Verona, Italy
L.P.S. Stassen – Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Guido Torzilli – Humanitas Research Hospital, Milan, Italy
Jean Nicolas Vauthey – University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
Cornelis Verhoef – Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Luca Viganò – Humanitas Research Hospital, Milan, Italy
Desmond C. Winter – St Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
Nuha A. Yassin – St Mark’s Hospital and Academic Institute, Harrow, UK
Kazuhiko Yoshida – The Jikei University, Tokyo, Japan
 
 
Editorial Board
René Adam – Hôpital Universitaire Paul Brousse, Villejuif, France
Eliane Angst – Kantonsspital Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland
Giedrius Barauskas – Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania
Claudio Bassi – Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata di Verona, Verona, Italy
Eric J.T. Belt – Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Toru Beppu – Kumamoto University Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan
Sebastiano Biondo – Bellvitge University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain
Maximilian Bockhorn – Klinikum Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
Ross Carter – Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, UK
Pierre Alain Clavien – Universitätsspital Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Mike d’Angelica – Memorial Sloan Kettering, New York, NY, USA
Conor P. Delaney – University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA
Christos G. Dervenis – Agia Olga General Hospital, Athens, Greece
Andre d’Hoore – Universitair Ziekenhuis Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Claire L. Donohoe – Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Mark S. Duxbury – University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK 
Hidetoshi Eguchi – Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
Helmut Friess – Klinikum rechts der Isar, Munich, Germany
Tomohisa Furuhata – Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Japan
Felice Giuliante – Sacred Heart University, Rome, Italy
Luis Grande – Hospital Universitario del Mar, Barcelona, Spain
Michael Griffin – Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle, UK
Richard H. Hardwick – Addenbrooks Hospital, Cambridge, UK
Stefan Heinrich – University Hospital of Mainz, Mainz, Germany
Tobias Keck – Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein Campus Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
Brett Knowles – Fitzroy, VIC, Australia
Shogo Kobayashi – Osaka University, Suita, Japan
Lukas Krähenbühl – Spital Einsiedeln, Einsiedeln, Switzerland
Chikara Kunisaki – Yokohama City University Medical Center, Yokohama, Japan
Antonio M. Lacy – Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Barcleona, Spain
Kristoffer Lassen – Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Michael P.N. Lewis – Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich, UK
Masato Nagino – Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
Ulf Neumann – Universitätsklinikum der RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany
Michael Olausson – University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Piet Pattyn – University Hospital Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
Antonio Daniele Pinna – University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Irinel Popescou – "Dan Setlacec" Center of General Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Bucharest, Romania
Joost Rothbarth – Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Paul Magnus Schneider – Chirurgisches Zentrum Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Hideaki Shimada – Toho University, Tokyo, Japan
Shailesh V. Shrikhande – Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India
Hugo W. Tilanus – Academisch Ziekenhuis Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Hideki Ueno – National Defense Medical College, Saitama, Japan
Thomas M. van Gulik – University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Richard van Hillegersberg – University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Bas P.L. Wijnhoven – Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
John A. Windsor – Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand
Giovanni Zaninotto – Ospedale SS Giovanni a Paulo, Venezia, Italy