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Received: 14 November 2018

Accepted: 4 January 2019

First Online: 24 April 2019

Authors’ information

: -Francesco Paolo Prete is consultant general and endocrine surgeon at the Department of Emergency and Organ Transplant - Minimally invasive and Endocrine Surgery Unit, University Medical School of Bari, Italy.-Rinaldo Marzaioli is associate professor of surgery at the Department of Emergency and Organ Transplant, University Medical School of Bari, Italy.-Sara Lattarulo is associate specialist general surgeon at the Department of Emergency and Organ Transplant - Minimally invasive and Endocrine Surgery Unit, University Medical School of Bari, Italy.-Daniele Paradies is general surgeon in training at the University Medical School of Bari, Italy.-Graziana Barile is general surgeon in training at the University Medical School of Bari, Italy.-Maria Vittoria d’Addetta is foundation doctor at the Minimally invasive and Endocrine Surgery Unit, University Medical School of Bari, Italy.-Giovanni Tomasicchio is foundation doctor at the University Medical School of Bari, Italy.-Angela Gurrado is consultant general and endocrine surgeon at the Department of Biomedical Science and Human Oncology - Emergency, Digestive and Endocrine Surgery Unit, University Medical School of Bari, Italy.-Angela Pezzolla is associate professor of surgery and head of the Minimally invasive and Endocrine Surgery Unit, Department of Emergency and Organ Transplant, University Medical School of Bari, Italy.

: The protocol of this study was approved by the IRB (“Comitato Etico”) of Policlinico di Bari, School of Medicine. Patient consent for research use of data was obtained for each case presented. All identification data of the patients were removed from medical records prior to data collection. De-identified data were used, and it was not possible to trace any of the data to the actual individual. Only information required for coherent description of cases was extracted. Data in electronic format were accessible to authorized personnel only. No intervention other than recording, counting and analysing of data took place.

: Consent to publish was obtained by participants to report individual patient images relative to patient positioning and postoperative outcomes.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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