Erratum to: Surg Endosc DOI 10.1007/s00464-007-9225-9

The affiliation for T. Fabian and A. McKelvey was incorrectly published and the affiliation is now corrected.

The Hospital of St. Raphael was referred to in the Methods section in Volume 21, page 755, but misspelled as “St. Rafael’s Hospital”.

Springer regrets these errors.