Acknowledgments

The publication of invaluable papers in Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery depends on the prompt, careful review of submitted manuscripts. Abe, Tetsuya Aizawa, Masaki Ajiki, Tetsuo Akagi, Yoshito Akai, Hiroyuki Akamatsu, Nobuhisa Akita, Hirofumi Akiyoshi, Takashi Aoki, Takeshi Aoki, Taku Aoyama, Toru Arigami, Takaaki Ariizumi, Shun-Ichi Arita, Junichi Ashida, Ryo Baba, Yoshifumi Ban, Daisuke Bando, Etsuro Beppu, Toru Booka, Eisuke Daiko, Hiroyuki Deng, Han-Yu Ebata, Tomoki Ebihara, Yuma Eguchi, Hidetoshi Etoh, Tsuyoshi Fujii, Hodaka Fujii, Tsutomu Fujimura, Takashi Fujishiro, Mitsuhiro Fujita, Fumihiko Fujita, Takeo Fujiwara, Hitoshi Fujiwara, Yoshiyuki Fukami, Yasuyuki Fukumoto, Takumi Fukuyo, Ryosuke Furuhata, Tomohisa Goi, Takanori Goto, Yuichi Gotohda, Naoto Hachisuka, Takehiro Harimoto, Norifumi Hasegawa, Hirotoshi Hasegawa, Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Suguru Hasegawa, Yasushi Hashimoto, Daisuke Hata, Koichiro Hata, Taishi Hatano, Etsuro Hatori, Takashi Hayashi, Yoshito Hazama, Shoichi Hibi, Taizo Hida, Koya Hidaka, Masaaki Higuchi, Ryota Hiraki, Yoshiki Hirano, Satoshi Hirata, Keiji Hiyoshi, Yukiharu Honda, Goro Hoshino, Isamu Hosoda, Kei Ikeda, Masataka Ikegami, Toru Ikeuchi, Hiroki Ikoma, Hisashi Inaki, Noriyuki Inoue, Tadahisa Isaji, Shuji Ishido, Keinosuke Ishihara, Soichiro Ishii, Yoshiyuki Ishizawa, Takeaki Itabashi, Michio Itano, Osamu Itoh, Shinji Kaibori, Masaki Kaido, Toshimi Kajiwara, Yoshiki Kamatani, Takashi Kamei, Takashi Kanaji, Shingo Kanda, Mitsuro Kanemitsu, Yukihide Kasama, Kazunori Katai, Hitoshi Kato, Yutaro Kawada, Kenji Kawai, Kazushige Kawai, Manabu Kawaida, Hiromichi Kimura, Yasutoshi Kimura, Yutaka Kinami, Shinichi Kinoshita, Takahiro Kinugasa, Yuske Kishi, Yoji Kitago, Minoru Kitayama, Joji Kobayashi, Hirotoshi Kobayashi, Shogo Kojima, Kazuyuki Komatsu, Shuhei Komori, Koji Konishi, Tsuyoshi Kono, Koji Kubo, Shoji Kubota, Takeshi Kudo, Atsushi Kumamoto, Kensuke Kunisaki, Chikara Kuriu, Yoshiaki Kuroda, Shinji Lee, Han Hong Makino, Isamu Makino, Tomoki Makiura, Daisuke Manabe, Tatsuya Marubashi, Shigeru Matsuda, Chu Matsuda, Keiji Matsuda, Kenji Matsuhashi, Nobuhisa Matsui, Junichi Matsumoto, Ippei Matsumoto, Sohei Matsuoka, Tadashi Matsutani, Takeshi Matsuyama, Ryusei Mima, Kosuke Mine, Shinji Misawa, Takeyuki Miura, Fumihiko Miyamoto, Yuji Miyazaki, Yasuhiro Mizuguchi, Toru Mizuno, Shugo Mizuno, Takashi Monden, Kazuteru Mori, Shinichirou Mori, Toshiyuki Morikawa, Takanori Morine, Yuji Morise, Zenichi Morita, Masaru Motoi, Fuyuhiko