About the Authors

Anna Mantas

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany, Department of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Carlos Constantin Otto

Roles Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany, Department of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Pim B. Olthof

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Surgery, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Surgery, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Daniel Heise

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany, Department of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Dieter Paul Hoyer

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Philipp Bruners

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Maxim Dewulf

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Maastricht University Medical Center (MUMC), Maastricht, The Netherlands

Sven Arke Lang

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany, Department of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Tom Florian Ulmer

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany, Department of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Ulf Peter Neumann

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany, Department of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany, Department of Surgery, Maastricht University Medical Center (MUMC), Maastricht, The Netherlands

Jan Bednarsch

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

jan.bednarsch@uk-essen.de

Affiliations Department of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany, Department of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.