Bösch, Florian http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0250-9017
Todorova, Rumyana
Link, Helena
Westphalen, C. Benedikt
Boeck, Stefan
Heinemann, Volker
Werner, Jens
Kirchner, Thomas
Angele, Martin K.
Neumann, Jens
Article History
Received: 16 July 2019
Accepted: 16 September 2019
First Online: 20 September 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors wish to confirm that there are no known conflicts of interest associated with this publication and there has been no significant financial support for this work that could have influenced its outcome.
: The study was carried out according to the recommendations of the local ethics committee of the Medical Faculty of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany. This retrospective study was performed with irreversibly anonymized data sets and tissue specimens. Thus, ethical approval or written consent was not required. The study was performed according to the standards laid out in the declaration of Helsinki 1975. All researchers were blinded to the patient data during the experimental analysis.