Editor-in-Chief

B.M. Ure, Hannover

Editorial Board Members

A. Bonnard, Paris
S. D. St. Peter, Kansas City
P. Kaliciński, Warsaw
M. Lacher, Leipzig

Editors Emeriti

A.M. Holschneider, Bergisch Gladbach
Y. Revillon, Paris

EUPSA Editor

Chairman of the EUPSA Scientific Office
M. Pakarinen, Helsinki

Associated Editors representing the following countries or regions

A.R. Al-Qahtani, Middle East
M. Baglaj, Poland
R. Carachi, UK
J. Correia-Pinto, Portugal
A. De Backer, Belgium
G. Fitze, Germany
H. Flageole, Canada
S. D. St. Peter, USA
D.U. Krivchenya, Ukraine
Z. Krstic, Serbia
S. Lipovšek, Slovenia
M. Meuli, Switzerland
A. Mironescu, Romania
M. Pakarinen, Finland
G. Riccipetitoni, Italy
A.M. Rokitansky, Austria
R. Skába, Czech Republic
H. Skari, Norway
P. Stefanova, Bulgaria
F.C. Tanyel, Turkey
J. Thorup, Denmark
J.A. Tovar, Spain
E. van Heurn, The Netherlands
M. Vidiscác, Slovakia
T. Wester, Sweden
A. Yamataka, Asia

Editorial Consultants

D. Aronson, Amsterdam
R.G. Azizkhan, Omaha
E. Bruder, Basel
P. Caione, Roma
P. Czauderna, Gdansk
M. Davenport, London
I. de Blaauw, Nijmegen
P. de Coppi, London
O. Ergün, Izmir
P. Frykman, Los Angeles
J. Fuchs, Tübingen
J.-M. Guys, Marseille
F.-M. Häcker, Basel
N. J. Hall, Southampton
A. Hesse, Accra/Ghana
P.R. Johnson, Oxford
M. Kaiser, Lübeck
R. Keijzer, Manitoba
A. Koivusalo, Helsinki
J. Kuebler, Hannover
M. Lacher, Leipzig
J. Langer, Toronto
M.-D. Leclair, Nantes
M. Levitt, Cincinnati
P.D. Losty, Liverpool
B. Ludwikowski, Hannover
L. Martinez, Madrid
G. Martucciello, Genoa
M. Metzelder, Vienna
O. Muensterer, Mainz
A. Mustafawi, Dubai
D. Patkowski, Wroclaw
L. Pereira, Madrid
C. Petersen, Hannover
A. Petersons, Riga
A. Pierro, Toronto
H. Rode, Africa
U. Rolle, Frankfurt/M
M. Rygl, Prague
S. Sarnacki, Paris
A.K. Saxena, London
C. Schiestl, Zürich
S. D. St. Peter, Kansas City
P.P. Schmittenbecher, Karlsruhe
D. Sommerfeldt, Hamburg
R. Suempelmann, Hannover
I. Sukhotnik, Haifa
J. Svensson, Stockholm
P.O. Szavay, Lucerne
G. T. Tekant, Istanbul
D. Tibboel, Rotterdam
H. Till, Graz
S. van As, Cape Town
D.C. van der Zee, Utrecht
D. von Schweinitz, München
F. Weber, Rotterdam
R. Wijnen, Rotterdam
B. Wildhaber, Genève
M. Wulkan, Atlanta
S. Yazbek, Montréal
Z. Zachariou, Nicosia
A. Zani, Toronto

Official Journal of the Associations of Pediatric Surgery of the following countries:

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