Borkenstein, Andreas F. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6341-9069
Borkenstein, Eva-Maria
Langenbucher, Achim
Article History
Received: 14 September 2023
Accepted: 17 October 2023
First Online: 8 November 2023
Declarations
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: All authors (Andreas F. Borkenstein, Eva-Maria Borkenstein, and Achim Langenbucher) declare that they have no competing interests. All authors have no financial or proprietary interest in any material or method mentioned.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The local ethics committee (IRB) has provided a waiver for this study (Ärztekammer des Saarlandes, 157/21), as all data processed in this study were already anonymized at the source before being transferred to us for processing. This precludes any back-tracing of the identity, and therefore informed consent of the patients was not necessary.