About the Authors

Hanna Wendt

Contributed equally to this work with: Hanna Wendt, Anja Hillmer

HannaFW@web.de

Affiliation Department of Plastic, Hand, and Reconstructive Surgery, Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Anja Hillmer

Contributed equally to this work with: Hanna Wendt, Anja Hillmer

Affiliation Department of Plastic, Hand, and Reconstructive Surgery, Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Kerstin Reimers

Affiliation Department of Plastic, Hand, and Reconstructive Surgery, Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Joern W. Kuhbier

Affiliation Department of Plastic, Hand, and Reconstructive Surgery, Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Franziska Schäfer-Nolte

Affiliation Department of Plastic, Hand, and Reconstructive Surgery, Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Christina Allmeling

Affiliation Department of Plastic, Hand, and Reconstructive Surgery, Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Cornelia Kasper

Affiliation Institute of Technical Chemistry, Leibniz University of Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Peter M. Vogt

Affiliation Department of Plastic, Hand, and Reconstructive Surgery, Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HW AH PMV. Performed the experiments: HW JWK FSN CA AH. Analyzed the data: HW AH KR FSN JWK CA CK PMV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KR CK PMV. Wrote the paper: HW AH KR.