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Received: 8 June 2025

Accepted: 6 August 2025

First Online: 29 August 2025

Declarations

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: All procedures performed in this study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the local institutional research committee (Ethical committee of the University Medicine Greifswald) and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Ethical committee approval number BB 101/16.

: “The Corresponding Author has the right to grant on behalf of all authors and does grant on behalf of all authors, a worldwide licence to the Publishers and its licensees in perpetuity, in all forms, formats and media (whether known now or created in the future), to i) publish, reproduce, distribute, display and store the Contribution, ii) translate the Contribution into other languages, create adaptations, reprints, include within collections and create summaries, extracts and/or, abstracts of the Contribution, iii) create any other derivative work(s) based on the Contribution, iv) to exploit all subsidiary rights in the Contribution, v) the inclusion of electronic links from the Contribution to third party material where—ever it may be located; and, vi) licence any third party to do any or all of the above.”

: Although no data in this study could lead to public identification of the patients, all the participating patients signed written consent to publication of their data.

: The authors declare no competing interests.

: Henry W. S. Schroeder is a consultant to Karl Storz SE & Co. KG, Tuttlingen, Germany.