Schlosser, K. A.
Kao, A. M.
Zhang, Y.
Prasad, T.
Kasten, K. R.
Davis, B. R.
Heniford, B. T.
Colavita, P. D.
Article History
Received: 25 June 2018
Accepted: 29 October 2018
First Online: 16 November 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: KS: declares no conflict of interest. AK: declares no conflict of interest. PC: declares conflict of interest not directly related to the submitted work. Industry association with Gore and Allergan. No products or relationships relevant to this research. BD: declares no conflict of interest. KK: declares no conflict of interest. BH: declares conflict of interest not directly related to the submitted work. Industry association with Allergan, Gore, Stryker, Ethicon. No products or relationships relevant to this research. TP: declares no conflict of interest. YZ: declares no conflict of interest.
: This study was IRB exempt due to the deidentified data contained in ACS-NSQIP
: This article does not contain any studies directly involving human or animal participants, as it is a review of data already collected in a large data registry.
: For this type of study, formal consent was not necessary.
: The authors have no relevant financial and personal relationships that could inappropriately influence this work or its conclusions. This manuscript has been previously submitted to and withdrawn from the Journal of Surgical Research without previous publication.