About the Authors

Michael Tachezy

mtachezy@uke.uni-hamburg.de

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Hilke Zander

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Andreas H. Marx

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Phillip R. Stahl

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Florian Gebauer

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Jakob R. Izbicki

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Maximilian Bockhorn

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MT HZ. Performed the experiments: MT HZ AHM PRS. Analyzed the data: MT FG JRI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HZ AHM PRS. Wrote the paper: MT HZ MB.