About the Authors

Birte Möhlendick

birte.moehlendick@uni-duesseldorf.de (BM); nikolas.stoecklein@uni-duesseldorf.de (NHS)

Affiliation Department of Surgery (A), Heinrich-Heine University and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Christoph Bartenhagen

Affiliation Institute of Medical Informatics, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

Bianca Behrens

Affiliation Department of Surgery (A), Heinrich-Heine University and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Ellen Honisch

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Heinrich-Heine University and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Katharina Raba

Affiliation Institute for Transplantation Diagnostics and Cell Therapeutics, Heinrich-Heine University and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Wolfram T. Knoefel

Affiliation Department of Surgery (A), Heinrich-Heine University and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Nikolas H. Stoecklein

birte.moehlendick@uni-duesseldorf.de (BM); nikolas.stoecklein@uni-duesseldorf.de (NHS)

Affiliation Department of Surgery (A), Heinrich-Heine University and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BM WTK NHS. Performed the experiments: BM CB BB EH KR. Analyzed the data: BM CB EH NHS. Wrote the paper: BM WTK NHS.