Katz, Marie Sophie
Ooms, Mark
Heitzer, Marius
Klein, Maurice
Winnand, Philipp
Steiner, Timm
Hölzle, Frank
Modabber, Ali
Funding for this research was provided by:
Universitätsklinikum RWTH Aachen
Article History
Received: 4 June 2025
Accepted: 17 July 2025
First Online: 29 July 2025
Declarations
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: The patients signed informed consent regarding publication of their data and photographs.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: All procedures performed in this study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study was performed according to the Consolidated Standards of Registered Trial (CONSORT) guidelines. The study was approved by the institutional Clinical Research Ethics Committee (Decision Number 23–105) and by the German Clinical Trials Register (File Number DRKS00032344, registered on October 11, 2023).
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.