About the Authors

Volker J. Schmidt

Contributed equally to this work with: Volker J. Schmidt, Johannes G. Hilgert

schmidtvolker@gmx.net

Affiliations Department of Plastic and Hand Surgery, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany, Department of Hand-, Plastic- and Reconstructive Surgery, BG Unfallklinik Ludwigshafen, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Johannes G. Hilgert

Contributed equally to this work with: Volker J. Schmidt, Johannes G. Hilgert

Affiliation Department of Plastic and Hand Surgery, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

Jennifer M. Covi

Affiliation Department of Plastic and Hand Surgery, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

Christian Weis

Affiliation Department of Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

Johanna O. Wietbrock

Affiliation Department of Hand-, Plastic- and Reconstructive Surgery, BG Unfallklinik Ludwigshafen, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Cor de Wit

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Universität zu Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Raymund E. Horch

Affiliation Department of Plastic and Hand Surgery, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

Ulrich Kneser

Affiliations Department of Plastic and Hand Surgery, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany, Department of Hand-, Plastic- and Reconstructive Surgery, BG Unfallklinik Ludwigshafen, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VJS UK JGH REH. Performed the experiments: VJS JGH JMC CW JOW. Analyzed the data: VJS JGH JMC CW REH UK JOW. Wrote the paper: VJS CdW.