Wortmann, Markus
Xiao, Xianghui
Wabnitz, Guido
Samstag, Yvonne
Hakimi, Maani
Böckler, Dittmar
Dihlmann, Susanne
Article History
Received: 13 June 2018
Revised: 3 December 2018
Accepted: 1 January 2019
First Online: 13 February 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Xianghui Xiao has received financial support from the German Society of Vascular Surgery and Vascular Medicine for attending the annual meeting of the society in 2017. Maani Hakimi is CEO of CODE Medical Frankfurt GbR, Germany. Dittmar Böckler is consultant for Medtronic, W.L Gore & Ass. Endologix. The authors have no competing interests. MW, GW, YS, and SD have no conflict of interest for this publication.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.