Meier, Malin
Zingde, Sumesh
Best, Raymond
Schroeder, Lennart
Beckmann, Johannes
Steinert, Andre Friedrich http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4397-8434
Article History
Received: 1 May 2019
Accepted: 16 September 2019
First Online: 30 September 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: One of the authors (SZ) is an employee of Conformis Inc (Billerica, MA, USA) and received compensations between 100,000 and 1,000,000. He also received stock values between 10,000 and 100,000. One of the authors (LS) received an intern research scholarship from Conformis Inc. One of the authors certifies that he (AS) has received personal fees for consultant teaching, during the study period, in an amount of less than USD 10,000 from Conformis Inc (Billerica, MA, USA), outside the submitted manuscript. One of the authors certifies that he (JB) has received personal fees for consultant teaching, during the study period, in an amount of less than USD 10,000, from Smith & Nephew (Smith & Nephew GmbH, Hamburg, Germany), Conformis Inc (Billerica, MA, USA) and DePuy Synthes (Umkirch, Germany), all outside the submitted manuscript.
: Since the present study is based on analysing anonymised CT data, IRB approval was not required. Any information that could identify patients was not used in the analysis. Investigators and Statistician dealt with anonymised data only. All procedures performed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964. Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Every patient involved agreed by giving informed consent.