Aljakna, Aleksandra
Lauer, Estelle
Lenglet, Sébastien
Grabherr, Silke
Fracasso, Tony
Augsburger, Marc
Sabatasso, Sara
Thomas, Aurélien
Article History
Received: 7 August 2017
Accepted: 22 February 2018
First Online: 19 March 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: For this type of study, formal consent is not required. All cases included in this study were obtained from the autopsy database in our center. In agreement with the local ethics committee and the local general prosecutor, these cases can be included in this type of studies, provided that they are anonymized. In this investigation, no information allowing the identification of a person is given. People, who had previously refused, in a written form, their consent to bequeath their body parts for research use, were excluded from the study.