About the Authors

Raymond Tabibiazar

Affiliation Stanford Center for Lymphatic and Venous Disorders, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Lauren Cheung

Affiliation Stanford Center for Lymphatic and Venous Disorders, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Jennifer Han

Affiliation Stanford Center for Lymphatic and Venous Disorders, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Jeffrey Swanson

Affiliation Stanford Center for Lymphatic and Venous Disorders, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Andreas Beilhack

Affiliation Stanford Center for Lymphatic and Venous Disorders, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Andrew An

Affiliation Stanford Center for Lymphatic and Venous Disorders, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Soheil S Dadras

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Ned Rockson

Affiliation Stanford Center for Lymphatic and Venous Disorders, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Smita Joshi

Affiliation Stanford Center for Lymphatic and Venous Disorders, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Roger Wagner

Affiliation Stanford Center for Lymphatic and Venous Disorders, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Stanley G Rockson

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: srockson@cvmed.stanford.edu

Affiliation Stanford Center for Lymphatic and Venous Disorders, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

RT, AB, and SGR participated in study design. RT, JS, NR, and RW participated in microarray execution and analysis. AA and NR participated in the execution of RT-PCR. LC and SSD participated in histological preparation and analysis. JH, AB, and SJ participated in imaging execution and data analysis. JH participated in microsphere techniques. JH participated in immunohistochemistry. SSD participated in LYVE-1 immunohistochemistry. RT, LC, AB, AD, SJ, and SGR participated in data analysis. RT, LC, and SGR participated in manuscript preparation.