About the Authors

Gian Luca Casoni

Contributed equally to this work with: Gian Luca Casoni, Sara Tomassetti

Affiliation Department of Diseases of the Thorax, G.B Morgagni Hospital, Forlì, Italy

Sara Tomassetti

Contributed equally to this work with: Gian Luca Casoni, Sara Tomassetti

Affiliation Department of Diseases of the Thorax, G.B Morgagni Hospital, Forlì, Italy

Alberto Cavazza

Affiliation Department of Pathology, S. Maria Nuova Hospital-I.R.C.C.S, Reggio Emilia, Italy

Thomas V. Colby

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America

Alessandra Dubini

Affiliation Department of Pathology, G.B Morgagni Hospital, Forlì, Italy

Jay H. Ryu

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Elisa Carretta

Affiliation Biostatistics and Clinical Trials Unit, Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori, Meldola Forlì-Cesena, Italy

Paola Tantalocco

Affiliation Department of Diseases of the Thorax, G.B Morgagni Hospital, Forlì, Italy

Sara Piciucchi

Affiliation Department of Radiology, G.B Morgagni Hospital, Forlì, Italy

Claudia Ravaglia

Affiliation Department of Diseases of the Thorax, G.B Morgagni Hospital, Forlì, Italy

Christian Gurioli

Affiliation Department of Diseases of the Thorax, G.B Morgagni Hospital, Forlì, Italy

Micaela Romagnoli

Affiliation Department of Diseases of the Thorax, G.B Morgagni Hospital, Forlì, Italy

Carlo Gurioli

Affiliation Department of Diseases of the Thorax, G.B Morgagni Hospital, Forlì, Italy

Marco Chilosi

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Verona University, Verona, Italy

Venerino Poletti

venerino.poletti@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Diseases of the Thorax, G.B Morgagni Hospital, Forlì, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GLC ST AC TVC JHR Carlo Gurioli VP MC. Performed the experiments: GLC Carlo Gurioli VP. Analyzed the data: GLC ST AD EC PT SP CR Christian Gurioli MR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EC PT. Wrote the paper: GLC ST AC TVC JHR VP MC.