Hönikl, Lisa Stefanie
Lämmer, Friederike
Gempt, Jens
Meyer, Bernhard
Schlegel, Jürgen
Delbridge, Claire
Article History
Received: 6 January 2020
Accepted: 20 March 2020
First Online: 2 April 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors have no financial or nonfinancial conflicts of interest to disclose.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the local ethics committee (Klinikum rechts der Isar, UE 087-13) and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The specimens for this retrospective study were collected at the neurosurgery department of Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München (TUM) with patients’consent according to the TUM medical faculty’s guidelines for tissue preservation. All patients had signed informed consent dorms according to the local ethics committee. Tissue samples for histopathological diagnosis and molecular genetic analysis were acquired during tumour resection at the NeuroKopf-Zentrum, Klinikum rechts der Isar, TUM. Tumour diagnoses of glioblastoma multiforme, WHO IV, were established by two independent neuropathologists at Institute für Allgemeine Pathologie und Pathologische Anatomie der TUM.