Depreitere, Bart http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7458-0648
Ricciardi, Federico
Arts, Mark
Balabaud, Laurent
Bunger, Cody
Buchowski, Jacob M.
Chung, Chun Kee
Coppes, Maarten Hubert
Fehlings, Michael George
Kawahara, Norio
Martin-Benlloch, Juan Antonio
Massicotte, Eric Maurice
Mazel, Christian
Meyer, Bernhard
Oner, Fetullah Cumhur
Peul, Wilco
Quraishi, Nasir
Tokuhashi, Yasuaki
Tomita, Katsuro
Verlaan, Jorrit-Jan
Wang, Michael
Crockard, Hugh Alan
Choi, David
Funding for this research was provided by:
Global Spine Tumor Study Group
DePuy Synthes Spine (None)
National Institute for Health Research (None)
Article History
Received: 28 August 2019
Accepted: 23 December 2019
First Online: 17 January 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: This work was funded by the Global Spine Tumor Study Group, a registered charity of England and Wales, Charity Commission number 1134934, and DePuy Synthes (Johnson and Johnson). This study was performed in part at University College London Biomedical Research Centre, which receives funding from the National Institute for Health Research, UK. The sponsors had no role in the design or conduct of this research.
: All authors certify that they have no affiliations with or involvement in any organization or entity with any financial interest (such as honoraria; educational grants; participation in speakers’ bureaus; membership, employment, consultancies, stock ownership, or other equity interest; and expert testimony or patent-licensing arrangements) or nonfinancial interest (such as personal or professional relationships, affiliations, knowledge, or beliefs) in the subject matter or materials discussed in this manuscript.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the local institutional research committees according to national regulations 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.