Pohlan, Julian http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5189-4775
Stelbrink, Carsten
Pumberger, Matthias
Deppe, Dominik
Schömig, Friederike
Hecht, Nils
Göhler, Friedemann
Hamm, Bernd
Diekhoff, Torsten
Funding for this research was provided by:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (372486779-SFB 1340)
Article History
Received: 15 January 2021
Revised: 23 March 2021
Accepted: 29 April 2021
First Online: 15 May 2021
Declarations
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Julian Pohlan.
: The authors of this manuscript declare relationships with the following companies: Canon Medical Systems; i.e., Torsten Diekhoff held lectures for Canon medical systems.The authors declare no other relationships with any companies whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article.
: One of the authors (TD) has significant statistical expertise. No complex statistical methods requiring further support by biometry were necessary for this paper.
: Written informed consent was obtained from part of the subjects (patients) in this study—please compare study arm patients with osteoporotic vertebral fractures (Pumberger et al, 2020). Written informed consent was not required for the remainder of the human part of this study because of its retrospective design.
: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained.
: Some study subjects have been previously reported; i.e., the patients with osteoporotic vertebral fractures were differently analyzed in another study published in this journal under DOI 10.1007/s00330-018-5963-4. Please compare with the following section in the manuscript: “Specifically, we included patients […] with osteoporotic vertebral fractures (n = 68) […].”
: • retrospective (with reference to the intervertebral disc analysis in patients); the experimental setup was prospective in nature• observational and experimental• performed at one institution