About the Authors

Feride Kroepil

Contributed equally to this work with: Feride Kroepil, Georg Fluegen

Affiliation Department of General-, Visceral- and Pediatric Surgery, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Georg Fluegen

Contributed equally to this work with: Feride Kroepil, Georg Fluegen

Affiliation Department of General-, Visceral- and Pediatric Surgery, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Zaurbek Totikov

Affiliation Department of General-, Visceral- and Pediatric Surgery, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Stephan E. Baldus

Affiliation Institute for Pathology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Christian Vay

Affiliation Department of General-, Visceral- and Pediatric Surgery, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Matthias Schauer

Affiliation Department of General-, Visceral- and Pediatric Surgery, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Stefan A. Topp

Affiliation Department of General-, Visceral- and Pediatric Surgery, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Jan Schulte am Esch

Affiliation Department of General-, Visceral- and Pediatric Surgery, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Wolfram T. Knoefel

Affiliation Department of General-, Visceral- and Pediatric Surgery, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Nikolas H. Stoecklein

nikolas.stoecklein@uni-duesseldorf.de

Affiliation Department of General-, Visceral- and Pediatric Surgery, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NHS FK GEWF WTK SEB. Performed the experiments: ZT CV MS GEWF FK SAT. Analyzed the data: NHS SAT JS WTK CV FK GEWF SEB MS GEWF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NHS FK JS SAT SEB MS WTK. Wrote the paper: NHS FK GEWK SEB JS. Shared first authorship: FK GEWF.