Heublein, Sabine
Friese, Klaus
Kost, Bernd
Marmé, Frederik
Kuhn, Christina
Mahner, Sven
Dannecker, Christian
Mayr, Doris
Jeschke, Udo
Vattai, Aurelia
Article History
Received: 8 June 2018
Accepted: 10 July 2018
First Online: 30 July 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The tissue samples used for this retrospective study had originally been collected for routine diagnostics at the time the patient had been treated at our institution (1993–2002). Since, meanwhile, all diagnostic procedures have already been fully completed, tissue samples have been classified as surplus material. FFPE material was retrieved from the archive of the Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany and underwent irreversible anonymisation. The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (approval number 259-16, 2016), and was performed according to the standards set in the declaration of Helsinki 1975. All researchers were blinded from patient data during experimental analysis.
: As per declaration of the local ethics committee [Ludwig-Maximilians-University Medical School (Munich, Germany)], no written informed consent of the participants is needed given the circumstances described above.
: The data sets used and/or analysed during the current study available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
: The authors have no competing interests to declare.