{"paper_id":"26b5275e-e4e1-4f0e-8ea2-5df966ff30b7","body_text":"The ANGEL Group, consisting of experts out of nine different nations, has invested significant efforts and resources in improving general awareness and generating evidence on the clinical benefits of adhesion prophylaxis during the last 5 years; this work will be continued with a special impact on adhesion prophylaxis in endometriosis-related surgeries.\nThe ANGEL Group is a panel of European gynaecological surgeons focused on identifying opportunities to reduce the incidence of adhesions through collective expert proposals on actions to take to prevent adhesions.\nThe members of the ANGEL Group are: Dr. Julio Alvarez (Spain), Prof. Hans Brölmann (Netherlands), Dr. Rudi Campo (Belgien), Dr. Ying Cheong (United Kingdom), Prof. Philippe Koninckx (Belgium), Prof. Per Lundorff (Denmark), Prof. Leszek Pawelczyk (Poland), Prof. Horace Roman (France), Dr. Attilio di Spiezio Sardo (Italy), Dr. Markus Wallwiener (Germany), Prof. Rudy Leon De Wilde (Germany).\n\nThis study was funded by NORDIC Pharma Europe.\nAll authors received reimbursement of travel expenses and accommodation costs by NORDIC Pharma Europe.\nThis article does not contain any studies with human participants or animals, performed by any of the authors.\n\nUnder the auspices of the ESGE Adhesions Research Special Interest Group (European Society of Gynecological Endoscopy).\nThe members of the ANGEL Group are given in Acknowledgments.","source_license":"CC0","license_restricted":false}