Aslam, M. I.
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Rubio-Perez, I. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3960-6865
Smart, N. J. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3043-8324
Singh, B.
Article History
Received: 31 January 2019
Accepted: 22 February 2019
First Online: 6 March 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All the authors have completed the ICMJE COI forms. MIA declares no conflict of interest. IRP reports personal fees from Medtronic, personal fees from MSD, outside the submitted work. NS reports grants from UK National Institute of Health Research, during the conduct of the study; personal fees from Medtronic, personal fees from WL Gore, outside the submitted work. BS declares no conflict of interest.
: Approval from the institutional review Board was not required for this study (based on anonymous questionnaires to surgeons).
: This article does not contain any studies with human participants or animals performed by any of the authors.
: For this anonymous and voluntary questionnaire that did not involve patients, formal consent is not required.