About the Authors

Jens Mani

Affiliation Department of Urology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Jasmina Makarević

Affiliation Department of Urology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Eva Juengel

Affiliation Department of Urology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Hanns Ackermann

Affiliation Institute of Biostatistics, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Karen Nelson

Affiliation Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Axel Haferkamp

Contributed equally to this work with: Axel Haferkamp, Roman A. Blaheta

Affiliation Department of Urology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Roman A. Blaheta

Contributed equally to this work with: Axel Haferkamp, Roman A. Blaheta

Blaheta@em.uni-frankfurt.de

Affiliation Department of Urology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: J. Mani AH RAB. Performed the experiments: J. Mani J. Makarević EJ. Analyzed the data: J. Mani HA KN. Wrote the paper: J. Mani KN RAB. Designed the software used in analysis: HA. Drafted the article and finally approved the version to be published: AH.