1 Department of Anaesthesia and Palliative Care, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria, Fondazione Macchi, Varese, Italy.
2 Universitätsklinik für Allgemein-, Viszeral- und Gefäßchirurgie, Universitätsklinikum Halle (Saale), Medizinische Fakultät, Ernst-Grube-Straße 40, 06097, Halle (Saale), Germany.
3 Division of Thyroid and Parathyroid Endocrine Surgery, Department of Laryngology and Otology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
4 Institute of Clinical Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
5 Faculty of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
6 Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
7 Department of Surgery, KUMC Thyroid Center, Korea University Anam Hospital, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
8 Third Chair and Department of General Surgery, Jagiellonian University, Medical College, Kraków, Poland.
9 1st Division of Surgery, Research Center for Endocrine Surgery, Department of Surgical Sciences and Human Morphology, University of Insubria (Como-Varese), via Guicciardini 9, 21100, Varese, Italy. gianlorenzo.dionigi@uninsubria.it.