Early dynamic changes in circulating tumor cells and prognostic relevance following interventional radiological treatments in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma

• Thomas J. Vogl ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas J. Vogl, Linda J. Riegelbauer

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Frankfurt University Hospital, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

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• Linda J. Riegelbauer ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas J. Vogl, Linda J. Riegelbauer

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Frankfurt University Hospital, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

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• Elsie Oppermann,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Frankfurt University Hospital, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

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• Michel Kostantin,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Frankfurt University Hospital, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0928-9002

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• Hanns Ackermann,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Software

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Statistics, Frankfurt University Hospital, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

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• Annette Trzmiel,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software

  Affiliation Flow Cytometry Unit, Georg-Speyer-Haus, Frankfurt, Germany

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• Stefan Stein,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Software, Validation

  Affiliation Flow Cytometry Unit, Georg-Speyer-Haus, Frankfurt, Germany

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• Katrin Eichler,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Visualization

  Affiliation Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Frankfurt University Hospital, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

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• Vladimir P. Zharov,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliation Arkansas Nanomedicine Center, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

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• Dhruvajyoti Roy,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory for Advanced Medicine, Inc., Irvine, California, United States of America

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• Andreas A. Schnitzbauer,

  Roles Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Frankfurt University Hospital, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

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• Benjamin Strücker,

  Roles Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Muenster University Hospital, Muenster, Germany

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• Andreas Pascher,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Muenster University Hospital, Muenster, Germany

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• Wolf O. Bechstein,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Frankfurt University Hospital, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

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• Mazen A. Juratli

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mazen.juratli@ukmuenster.de

  Affiliations Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Frankfurt University Hospital, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Muenster University Hospital, Muenster, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1793-0672

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