Peitgen, David S.
Innmann, Moritz M.
Merle, Christian
Gotterbarm, Tobias
Moradi, Babak
Streit, Marcus R. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1205-2401
Funding for this research was provided by:
Deutsche Arthrose-Hilfe e.V
Article History
Received: 24 March 2018
Accepted: 28 May 2018
First Online: 1 June 2018
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: David S. Peitgen, Moritz Innmann and Babak Moradi declare that they have no conflict of interest. Christian Merle has received a speaker honorarium from Company ZimmerBiomet. Tobias Gotterbarm has received a speaker and consultancy honorarium and travel expenses from Company Depuy Synthes. Marcus R Streit has received an honorarium for development of educational presentations from Company Depuy Synthes. The institution of one or more of the authors (DSP, MI, CM, TG, BM, MRS) has received funding from the noncommercial research fund of Deutsche Arthrose-Hilfe e.V. and Zimmer Europe (Winterthur, Switzerland).
: All patients gave informed consent and the institutional review board of the University of Heidelberg approved all procedures. The study was conducted in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975 as revised in 2013.