Calliess, Tilman
Ettinger, Max
Savov, Peter
Karkosch, Roman
Windhagen, Henning
Article History
First Online: 14 September 2018
Compliance with ethical guidelines
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: The robotic system used in the trial was financed and maintained by Stryker. All additional costs other than the routine TKA treatment were taken care of by Stryker; however, Stryker was not involved in the study design, data analysis or writing the article. The outlined surgical algorithms were prepared by the authors and not officially approved by Stryker. T. Calliess, H. Windhagen and M. Ettinger are paid consultants for Stryker, H. Windhagen and T. Calliess are on the European Advisory Board of Stryker. P. Savov and R. Karkosch declare that they have no competing interests.
: 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. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. For images or other information within the manuscript which identify patients, consent was obtained from them and/or their legal guardians.