Smolock, Amanda R.
Cristescu, Mircea M.
Hinshaw, Audrey
Woo, Kaitlin M.
Wells, Shane A.
Ziemlewicz, Timothy J.
Lubner, Meghan G.
Dalvie, Prasad S.
Louis Hinshaw, J.
Brace, Christopher L.
Ozkan, Orhan S.
Lee, Fred T. Jr.
Laeseke, Paul
Article History
First Online: 15 February 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: No funding was provided for this study.
: Christopher L. Brace: (1) consulting fees, NeuWave Medical, Inc., Madison, WI (2) shareholder and consulting fees, Symple Surgical, Inc., Menlo Park, CA. J. Louis Hinshaw: Consulting fees, NeuWave Medical, Inc., Madison, WI. Paul Laeseke: consulting fees, NeuWave Medical, Inc., Madison, WI. Fred T. Lee, Jr: (1) Board Member, Stockholder, and Grant recipient (pending) Histosonics, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI (2) Paid consultant, Ethicon, Inc., Somerville, NJ (3) Stockholder, Elucent, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (4) Patent holder and Royalties, Medtronic/Covidien, Inc., Boulder, CO (5) Stockholder, Zurex, Inc., HealthMyne, Inc., and Eximis Surgical, Inc. Meghan G. Lubner: (1) Grant recipient, Ethicon, Inc., Somerville, NJ (2) Grant recipient, Philips, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Shane A. Wells: consulting fees, NeuWave Medical, Inc., Madison, WI. Timothy J. Ziemlewicz: consulting fees, NeuWave Medical, Inc., Madison, WI.
: All procedures performed in the studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study prior to undergoing procedures. This retrospective study was approved by our institutional review board, and the requirement for informed consent was waived.