Erratum to: Langenbecks Arch Surg

DOI 10.1007/s00423-012-1014-9

The original article has been published with an unauthorized and misleading change in the list of authors: M.W. Büchler, M. Schneider, S. Sauerland and C.T. Gross did not author this article.

The corrected version of the author group and affiliation sections can be seen above and below.