About the Authors

Kestutis Urbonas

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

kestutis.urbonas@lsmu.lt

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania, Institute for Digestive Research, Laboratory of Surgical Gastroenterology, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania

Gabija Stachneviciute

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Institute for Digestive Research, Laboratory of Surgical Gastroenterology, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania

Aldona Jasukaitiene

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Institute for Digestive Research, Laboratory of Surgical Gastroenterology, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania

Povilas Ignatavicius

Roles Supervision, Validation

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania, Institute for Digestive Research, Laboratory of Surgical Gastroenterology, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania

Zilvinas Dambrauskas

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania, Institute for Digestive Research, Laboratory of Surgical Gastroenterology, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania

Antanas Gulbinas

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Institute for Digestive Research, Laboratory of Surgical Gastroenterology, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania

Giedrius Barauskas

Roles Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.