About the Authors

Patrick Czorlich

Contributed equally to this work with: Patrick Czorlich, Till Burkhardt

p.czorlich@uke.de

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Till Burkhardt

Contributed equally to this work with: Patrick Czorlich, Till Burkhardt

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Volker Knospe

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Gisbert Richard

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Eik Vettorazzi

Affiliation Department of Medical Biometry and Epidemiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Lars Wagenfeld

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Manfred Westphal

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Jan Regelsberger

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Christos Skevas

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, 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: PC VK JR. Performed the experiments: PC TB VK LW JR CS. Analyzed the data: PC EV JR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VK EV CS. Wrote the paper: PC TB EV JR CS. Drafted or critically revised the work for important intellectual content: PC GR LW MW JR CS. Final approval of the version to be published: PC GR MW JR CS.