Reale, Davide http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7069-9548
Previtali, Davide
Andriolo, Luca
Grassi, Alberto
Candrian, Christian
Zaffagnini, Stefano
Filardo, Giuseppe
Article History
Received: 2 February 2021
Accepted: 19 March 2021
First Online: 16 April 2021
Declarations
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: Stefano Zaffagnini has potential conflict of interest. He has received institutional support outside the present work from Fidia Farmaceutici, Cartiheal, IGEA Clinical Biophysics, Biomet and Kensey Nash. He has received grant support outside the present work from I + and royalties from Springer. Christian Candrian has received institutional support outside the present work from Medacta International SA, Johnson & Johnson, Lima Corporate, Zimmer Biomet, and Oped AG. Other Authors declare that they have no potential conflict of interest.
: There was no financial conflict of interest with regards to this study.
: Ethical approval was not required as this is a pure meta-analysis of the literature not involving humans nor animals.