Hinz, Nico http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6069-9787
Marsoni, Giulia
Mittelstädt, Hagen
Sonnabend, Falk
Wallroth, Karsten
Johl, Carsten
Weigert, Ulrich
Anderl, Conrad
Ortmaier, Reinhold
Zeleny, Natividad
Schulz, Arndt-Peter
Funding for this research was provided by:
Mathys Orthopedics GmbH, Germany
Article History
Received: 2 June 2023
Accepted: 9 October 2023
First Online: 4 November 2023
Declarations
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: All payments within the context of the funding by Mathys Orthopedics GmbH, Germany were made to the participating institutions/hospitals and not to individual authors. NZ is an employee of Mathys Orthopedics GmbH, Germany. APS has received a study grant from the Ministry of Health in Germany and payments for expert testimony from courts of Hamburg, Rostock and Lübeck as well as from Medcert (notified body). All other authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interest to disclose.
: Ethical approval for this study was obtained from the ethics committee of the Universität zu Lübeck (reference number: 12–112). This study was performed in line with the ethical standards of the institutional and national research committee and with the principles of the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.