Franciozi, Carlos Eduardo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0932-6870
de Carvalho, Rogério Teixeira
Itami, Yasuo
McGarry, Michelle H.
Ingham, Sheila Jean McNeill
Abdalla, Rene Jorge
Tibone, James Eugene
Lee, Thay Q.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (2015/10317-7, 2015/08952-6)
Article History
Received: 2 February 2018
Accepted: 21 September 2018
First Online: 28 September 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Carlos Eduardo Franciozi and Rene Jorge Abdalla received fees for speaking or for organizing an educational program and fee for consulting from Smith & Nephew in the past five years, not related to this study. James Eugene Tibone acts as a consultant for Arthrex but do not receive any money from them, not any related to this study. The remaining authors declare no conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed in this study were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments. This study was approved by The Federal University of São Paulo – UNIFESP – Institutional Review Board, number of Ethical Committee Approval: 45827413.5.0000.5505.