Angiopoietin-2 and Biliary Diseases: Elevated Serum, but Not Bile Levels Are Associated with Cholangiocarcinoma

• Torsten Voigtländer ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Torsten Voigtländer, Sascha David

  Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Integrated Research and Treatment Center – Transplantation (IFB-Tx), Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

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• Sascha David ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Torsten Voigtländer, Sascha David

  Affiliation Department of Nephrology & Hypertension, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

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• Kristina Thamm,

  Affiliation Department of Nephrology & Hypertension, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

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• Jerome Schlué,

  Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

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• Jochen Metzger,

  Affiliation Mosaiques diagnostics GmbH, Hannover, Germany

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• Michael P. Manns,

  Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Integrated Research and Treatment Center – Transplantation (IFB-Tx), Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

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• Tim O. Lankisch

  * E-mail: lankisch.tim@mh-hannover.de

  Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Integrated Research and Treatment Center – Transplantation (IFB-Tx), Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

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