Theil, Christoph http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0563-4128
Roedl, Robert
Gosheger, Georg
Moellenbeck, Burkhard
Frommer, Adrien
Dieckmann, Ralf
Vogt, Bjoern
Funding for this research was provided by:
Universitätsklinikum Münster
Article History
Received: 3 June 2020
Accepted: 28 September 2020
First Online: 10 October 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: One of the authors (CT) reports payment of travel expenses by Implantcast GmbH, Buxtehude, Germany, outside the submitted work. One author (BV) reports board membership of the GEVR without compensation and payment for travel, presentations and lectures by Merete medical and Nuvasive Specialized Orthopedics, outside the submitted work. One author (RR) declares personal fees from Nuvasive, Smith&Nephew, Merete medical, Kyowa Kirin and Biomarine outside the submitted work. The other authors (GG, RD, BM, AF) have nothing to declare.
: We had an ethics approval of the local ethics committee, reference number 2020-200-F-s. (Ethikkommission der Aerztekammer Westfalen-Lippe und der Westfaelischen-Wilhelms Universitaet Muenster).
: Consent was not deemed necessary by the ethics committee because this study is a retrospective analysis of routine clinical data.
: Consent for publication was not necessary because the manuscript does not contain individual data.