Affiliation: | ∗ Laboratory for Experimental Thoracic Surgery, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium † Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of Rome, La Sapienza, Rome, Italy ‡ Department of Pathology, Universitair Ziekenhuis Leuven, Belgium § Laboratory of Pneumology, KU Leuven, Belgium ¶ School of Public Health, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, KU Leuven, Belgium ‖ Department of Thoracic Surgery, UZ Leuven, Belgium |