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Article History

Received: 19 March 2022

Accepted: 11 June 2022

First Online: 21 July 2022

Declarations

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: We report personal fees paid to our institution during the conduct of the study from Zimmer Biomet, Europe and from Depuy Synthes Orthopädie Gmbh, Peter Brehm Gmbh outside the submitted work. Additionally, one co-author (T.G) received personal fees as a consultant for ZimmerBiomet outside the submitted work. All other co-authors certify that there are no funding or commercial associations (consultancies, stock ownership, equity interest, patent/licensing arrangements, etc.) that might pose a conflict of interest in connection with the submitted article related to the author or any immediate family members.

: This study received ethical approval from the local institutional review board (EK-No.: 1146/2021) of the “Ethikkommission JKU Linz” of the Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU Linz).

: 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 by all participating patients.