About the Authors

Beat P. Müller-Stich

Contributed equally to this work with: Beat P. Müller-Stich, Hannes G. Kenngott

Beat.Mueller@med.uni-heidelberg.de

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 110, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany

Hannes G. Kenngott

Contributed equally to this work with: Beat P. Müller-Stich, Hannes G. Kenngott

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 110, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany

Matthias Gondan

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 2A, 1315, København K, Denmark

Christian Stock

Affiliation Institute of Medical Biometry and Informatics, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 305, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany

Georg R. Linke

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 110, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany

Franziska Fritz

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 110, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany

Felix Nickel

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 110, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany

Markus K. Diener

Affiliations Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 110, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany, The Study Center of the German Surgical Society, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 110, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany

Carsten N. Gutt

Affiliation General, Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Klinikum Memmingen, Bismarckstraße 23, 87700, Memmingen, Germany

Moritz Wente

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 110, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany

Markus W. Büchler

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 110, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany

Lars Fischer

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 110, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

All authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BPM HGK MG MKD MWB LF CG. Performed the experiments: BPM HGK MG CS GRL FF FN MW. Analyzed the data: BPM HGK MG CS GRL FF FN MKD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HGK MG CS MKD. Wrote the paper: BPM HGK MG CS GRL FF FN MKD MWB LF.