About the Authors

Till Jasper Meyer

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – original draft

meyer_t2@ukw.de

Affiliation Department of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Plastic, Aesthetic & Reconstructive Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Elena Gerhard-Hartmann

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Nina Lodes

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Chair of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Agmal Scherzad

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Plastic, Aesthetic & Reconstructive Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Rudolf Hagen

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Plastic, Aesthetic & Reconstructive Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Maria Steinke

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Steinke, Stephan Hackenberg

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Chair of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research ISC, Würzburg, Germany

Stephan Hackenberg

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Steinke, Stephan Hackenberg

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Plastic, Aesthetic & Reconstructive Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Department of Otorhinolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Aachen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.