Malcherczyk, Dominik
Hack, Juliane
Klasan, Antonio
Abdelmoula, Asma
Heyse, Thomas J.
Greene, Brandon
El-Zayat, Bilal F.
Article History
Received: 10 February 2018
Accepted: 25 June 2018
First Online: 3 August 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
: The study had the approval of the local ethic committee and was conducted in conformity with the principles of the revised version of the Declaration of Helsinki.
: 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.The study had approval of the local ethic committee (EK-MR-07_12_2016).For this type of study, formal consent is not required.
: DM; JH; AK; AA; BG: These authors have not received any financial payments or other benefits from any commercial entity related to the subject of this article.TJH: has been paid for presentations for Smith & Nephew, Zimmer Biomet and Implantcast. He has received research support from Smith & Nephew and Zimmer Biomet. He is a consultant to Smith & Nephew.BFE: is Consultant to Smith & Nephew & CONMED; he received payments for lectures by Smith & Nephew & CONMED.On behalf of all authors, the corresponding author states that there is no conflict of interest.