Christen, Bernhard
Kopjar, Branko
Funding for this research was provided by:
Smith and Nephew
Article History
Received: 4 February 2018
First Online: 25 August 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Bernhard Christen, MD, MHA declare they have no conflict of interest. Branko Kopjar, MD, MS, Ph.D., FACE has received consulting fees from Smith and Nephew, Cerapedics, Amendia, Baronova, Hip Innovation Technologies, Bio Vera, Dignity Health, PorOsteon.
: 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 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. For retrospective studies, formal consent is not required. This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.