About the Authors

Christian Vay

christian.vay@med.uni-duesseldorf.de

Affiliations Department of Surgery (A), Heinrich-Heine-University and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, Department of General, Visceral, and Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Stefan B. Hosch

Affiliations Department of Surgery (A), Heinrich-Heine-University and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, Department of General, Visceral, and Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, Department of General, Vascular, and Visceral Surgery, Ingolstadt Medical Center, Ingolstadt, Germany

Nikolas H. Stoecklein

Affiliations Department of Surgery (A), Heinrich-Heine-University and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, Department of General, Visceral, and Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Christoph A. Klein

Affiliation Division of Oncogenomics, Institute of Pathology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Daniel Vallböhmer

Affiliation Department of Surgery (A), Heinrich-Heine-University and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Björn-Christian Link

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral, and Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Emre F. Yekebas

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral, and Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Jakob R. Izbicki

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral, and Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Wolfram T. Knoefel

Affiliations Department of Surgery (A), Heinrich-Heine-University and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, Department of General, Visceral, and Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Peter Scheunemann

Affiliations Department of Surgery (A), Heinrich-Heine-University and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, Department of General, Visceral, and Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, Department of Pediatric Surgery, University Hospital Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CV SBH NHS JRI WTK PS. Performed the experiments: CV PS. Analyzed the data: CV SBH NHS CAK DV PS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CV SBH NHS CAK BCL EFY JRI WTK PS. Wrote the paper: CV SBH NHS DV JRI WTK PS.