Lazaridis, Konstantinos
Athanasiou, Athanasios E.
Knösel, Michael
Papadopoulos, Moschos A.
Article History
Received: 23 April 2020
Accepted: 28 January 2021
First Online: 26 March 2021
Declarations
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: K. Lazaridis, A.E. Athanasiou, M. Knösel and M.A. Papadopoulos declare that they have no competing interests.
: The study has been based on the Doctorate Degree Thesis of the corresponding author [CitationRef removed] and was performed under the approval of the ethical committee of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (decision NR218/2-11-2010). The current study has also been registered in Clinicaltrials.gov (NCT03657498). No animals were used in this research. All research procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the committee responsible for human experimentation (institutional and national), and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008. Signed patient’s informed consent was obtained from all participants in the study.