Khewater, Talal http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1884-9198
Yercovich, Nathalie
Grymonprez, Edouard
Horevoets, Julie
Mulier, Jan Paul
Dillemans, Bruno
Article History
First Online: 11 June 2019
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: Prior to undergoing the conversional procedures, all patients provided written informed consent to have their data used anonymously for academic purposes. All procedures performed in this study 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 local ethics committee of AZ Sint-Jan Hospital Institutional Review Board approved the study protocol.
: Prior to the procedure, all patients provided written and witnessed consent that included their agreement to undergo the procedure, its related details, and the anonymous use of their data for academic purposes. Only patients who gave verbal consent to use their long-term follow-up data when contacted by phone were included in this section.