About the Authors

Alexandros Chrysos

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

achrysos@ukaachen.de

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, RWTH University Hospital, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Iakovos Amygdalos

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

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, RWTH University Hospital, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Priscila Nunes

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, St. Elisabeth-Hospital, Geilenkirchen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Guenter Haselow

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, St. Elisabeth-Hospital, Geilenkirchen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Konstantinos Lioupis

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Municipal Hospital, Heinsberg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Raphael Rosch

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Hermann-Josef-Hospital, Erkelenz, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Roman Marius Eickhoff

Roles Data curation, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, RWTH University Hospital, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Georg Wiltberger

Roles Data curation, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, RWTH University Hospital, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Ulf Peter Neumann

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, RWTH University Hospital, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Andreas Lambertz

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, RWTH University Hospital, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.