About the Authors

Olga Katzendorn

Contributed equally to this work with: Olga Katzendorn, Christoph A. J. von Klot

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Urology and Urologic Oncology, Hanover Medical School, Hanover, Germany

Christoph A. J. von Klot

Contributed equally to this work with: Olga Katzendorn, Christoph A. J. von Klot

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Urology and Urologic Oncology, Hanover Medical School, Hanover, Germany

Samy Mahjoub

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Urology and Urologic Oncology, Hanover Medical School, Hanover, Germany

Pouriya Faraj Tabrizi

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Urology and Urologic Oncology, Hanover Medical School, Hanover, Germany

Nina N. Harke

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Urology and Urologic Oncology, Hanover Medical School, Hanover, Germany

Hossein Tezval

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Urology and Urologic Oncology, Hanover Medical School, Hanover, Germany

Susanne Hellms

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliation Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Hanover Medical School, Hanover, Germany

Jörg Hennenlotter

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Urology, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Mirza S. Baig

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Urology, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Arnulf Stenzl

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Urology, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Ferdinand Seith

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliation Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Marcel Lafos

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Institute for Pathology, Hanover Medical School, Hanover, Germany

Markus A. Kuczyk

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Urology and Urologic Oncology, Hanover Medical School, Hanover, Germany

Steffen Rausch

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors jointly supervised this work.

Affiliation Department of Urology, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Inga Peters

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

peters.inga@mh-hannover.de

‡ These authors jointly supervised this work.

Affiliations Department of Urology and Urologic Oncology, Hanover Medical School, Hanover, Germany, Department of Urology, Krankenhaus Nordwest, Frankfurt a. Main, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors received no specific funding for this work. The authors thank the “Fritz und Gertrud Stegmeier Stiftung” for the general financial support. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.