Letter to the Editor concerning Schmedding et al.: Decentralised surgery of abdominal wall defects in Germany (Pediatr Surg Int (2020) 36:569-578)

Affiliations

• ¹ Clinic for Paediatric Surgery and Urology (ERN eUROGEN Member), Bremen, Germany. eberhard.schmiedeke@klinikum-bremen-mitte.de.
• ² AIMAR (The Italian Parents and Patients Organization for Anorectal Malformation), Rome, Italy.
• ³ SoMA (German Patients and Parents' Organizations for Anorectal Malformations and Hirschsprung Disease), Munich, Germany.
• ⁴ EAT (The Federation of Esophageal Atresia and Tracheo-Esophageal Fistula Support Groups), Stuttgart, Germany.
• ⁵ CDH UK & Founding Member of IDEA Alliance, Norfolk, UK.
• ⁶ KEKS (Children and Adults with Oesophageal Conditions), Stuttgart, Germany.
• ⁷ Division of Pediatric Urology Radboud, UMC Amalia Children's Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
• ⁸ Clinic for Paediatric Surgery (ERN ERNICA Member), University Medical Centre Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany.
• ⁹ Department of Pediatric Surgery, Sophia Children's Hospital, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.