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An International Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Vol. 48 No. 1 (2016)
Digestive
and Liver Disease
Italian Association for the Study of the Liver (AISF)
Italian Association for the Study of the Pancreas (AISP)
Italian Association for Digestive Endoscopy (SIED)
Israeli Society of Gastroenterology (ISG)
Italian Society of Gastroenterology (SIGE)
Italian Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology (SIGENP)
Italian Group for the Study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IG-IBD)
Fédération Francophone de Cancérologie Digestive (FFCD)
SECTION EDITORS
Basic Science
Gianfranco Alpini,
Temple, USA
Romina Mancinelli,
Rome, Italy
Theresa T. Pizarro,
Cleveland, USA
Digestive Endoscopy
Arnulf Ferlitsch,
Vienna, Austria
Cesare Hassan,
Rome, Italy
Helmut Neumann,
Erlangen, Germany
Emanuele Rondonotti,
Como, Italy
Digestive Oncology
Thomas Aparicio,
Bobigny, France
Côme Lepage,
Dijon, France
General Gastroenterology
Maura Corsetti,
Leuven, Belgium
Edoardo Savarino,
Padua, Italy
Radu Tutuian,
Bern, Switzerland
Umberto Volta,
Bologna, Italy
Imaging
Annalisa Berzigotti,
Bern, Switzerland
Cristina Bezzio,
Garbagnate Milanese, Italy
Federica Furfaro,
Rozzano, Italy
Giovanni Maconi,
Milan, Italy
Infectious Disease
Antonella D’Arminio Monforte,
Milan, Italy
Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Alessandro Armuzzi,
Rome, Italy
Emma Calabrese,
Rome, Italy
Stephen Collins,
Hamilton, Canada
Laurent Peyrin-Biroulet,
Vandoeuvre, France
Liver Disease
Tarik Asselah,
Clichy, France
Jaime Bosch,
Barcelona, Spain
Maurizia Brunetto,
Pisa, Italy
Patrizia Burra,
Padua, Italy
Alessia Ciancio,
Turin, Italy
Alessandra Dell’Era,
Milan, Italy
Silvia Fargion,
Milan, Italy
Vincenzo La Mura,
San Donato Milanese, Italy
Salvatore Petta,
Palermo, Italy
Gianluca Svegliati Baroni,
Ancona, Italy
Pancreatic Disease
Gabriele Capurso,
Rome, Italy
Patrick Maisonneuve,
Milan, Italy
Pediatric Gastroenterology
Salvatore Cucchiara,
Rome, Italy
Benjamin Shneider,
Houston, USA
Surgery
Massimo Falconi,
Milan, Italy
Roberto Santambrogio,
Milan, Italy
Statistical Consultant
Federico Ambrogi,
Milan, Italy
Editors Emeriti
Gabriele Bianchi-Porro,
Milan, Italy
Mario Angelico,
Rome, Italy
Editor in Chief
Roberto de Franchis,
Milan, Italy
Co-Editors
Savino Bruno,
Milan, Italy
Maurizio Vecchi,
San Donato Milanese, Italy
Managing Editor
Silvia Malosio,
Milan, Italy
Editorial Assistant
Brenda Dionisi,
Milan, Italy
EDITORIAL BOARD
Domenico Alvaro,
Rome, Italy
Angelo Andriulli,
Foggia, Italy
Paolo Angeli,
Padua, Italy
Adolfo Francesco Attili,
Rome, Italy
Gabrio Bassotti,
Perugia, Italy
Laurent Beaugerie,
Paris, France
Robert Benamouzig,
Bobigny, France
Antonio Benedetti,
Ancona, Italy
Marc Benninga,
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Marina Berenguer,
Valencia, Spain
Roman Bogorad,
Cambridge, USA
Jean-Pierre Bronowicki,
Vandoeuvre-Lès-Nancy, France
William R. Brugge,
Boston, USA
Elisabetta Buscarini,
Crema, Italy
Nicola Caporaso,
Naples, Italy
Carlo Catassi,
Ancona, Italy
Umberto Cillo,
Padua, Italy
Agostino Colli,
Lecco, Italy
Dario Conte,
Milan, Italy
Gino Roberto Corazza,
Pavia, Italy
Enrico Corazziari,
Rome, Italy
Antonio Craxì,
Palermo, Italy
Gianfranco Delle Fave,
Rome, Italy
A. Jack Demetris,
Pittsburgh, USA
Sharon DeMorrow,
Temple, USA
Philippe Ducrotte,
Rouen, France
Amal Dutta,
Dallas, USA
Stefano Fagiuoli,
Bergamo, Italy
Massimo Fantini,
Messina, Italy
P. Marco Fisichella,
Boston, USA
Heather Francis,
Temple, USA
Mirella Fraquelli,
Milan, Italy
Dennis Freshwater,
Birmingham, UK
Giovanni Battista Gaeta,
Naples, Italy
Antonio Gasbarrini,
Rome, Italy
Eugenio Gaudio,
Rome, Italy
Stefano Ginanni Corradini,
Rome, Italy
Shannon Glaser,
Temple, USA
Zhou Huiping,
Richmond, USA
Pietro Invernizzi,
Milan, Italy
Robert Jensen,
Baltimore, USA
Michel Kahaleh,
New York, USA
David Laharie,
Pessac, France
René Laugier,
Marseille, France
Astrid Liévre,
Saint-Cloud, France
Riccardo Marmo,
Salerno, Italy
Marco Marzioni,
Ancona, Italy
Carlo Merkel,
Padua, Italy
David Mutimer,
Birmingham, UK
Mattijs Numans,
Leiden, Netherlands
Jean Marc Phelip,
Saint Etienne, France
Paola Piccolo,
Rome, Italy
Antonio Pinna,
Bologna, Italy
Massimo Puoti,
Milan, Italy
Franco Radaelli,
Como, Italy
Alessandro Repici,
Milan, Italy
Oliviero Riggio,
Rome, Italy
Mario Rizzetto,
Turin, Italy
Renato Romagnoli,
Turin, Italy
Massimo Rugge,
Padua, Italy
Tilman Sauerbruch,
Bonn, Germany
Jean-Cristophe Saurin,
Pierre-Benite, France
Vincenzo Savarino,
Genoa, Italy
Laurent Siproudhis,
Rennes, France
Etienne Sokal,
Brussels, Belgium
Mario Strazzabosco,
New Haven, USA
Giacomo Carlo Sturniolo,
Padua, Italy
Pier Alberto Testoni,
Milan, Italy
Guiseppe Tisone,
Rome, Italy
Michael Trauner,
Vienna, Austria
Vincenzo Villanacci,
Brescia, Italy
Alrefai Waddah,
Chicago, USA
Frank Zerbib,
Bordeaux, France
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