Christogianni, Vasiliki https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5153-1851
Rao, Ashwini
Halter, Christian-Joern
Bemponis, Panagiotis
Raed, Mohanned
Zaidi, Osama E.
Buesing, Martin
Reiser, Markus
Article History
Received: 30 June 2024
Accepted: 17 May 2025
First Online: 30 August 2025
Declarations
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: The authors have nothing to disclose and no commercial associations that could be considered as a conflict of interest related to this article.
: As stated in § 15 para 1 of the Professional Code of the Medical Association Westfalen-Lippe, to whom our institution is affiliated, and in aligment with the item 1 of the Declaration of Helsinki by the World Medical Association (Rev. 2013), Ethics Committee approval is not required for retrospective analyses derived from a pseudonymized database, which applies to our study. Written informed consent for all surgical procedures was obtained from each patient.