Friedrich, U.
Backhaus, J.
Zipper, C. T.
König, S.
Mavroveli, S.
Wiegering, A.
Olbrecht, S.
Puppe, F.
Dietz, U. A.
Article History
Received: 13 May 2019
Accepted: 7 July 2019
First Online: 19 July 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: No conflict of interest is declared. The study was founded by the Medical Faculty Wuerzburg, Germany (Grant no. 620-2015) and third-party funds of working group of the Division of Hernia Repair and Abdominal Wall Reconstruction of the University Hospital Wuerzburg. The authors disclose that there are no conflicts of interest.
: The local institutional review and ethics board judged the project as not representing medical or epidemiological research on human subjects and as such adopted a simplified assessment protocol. The project was approved without any reservation under the proposal number 2016101302. Participation was voluntary and the results not accessible to the public.
: This article does not contain any studies with human participants performed by any of the authors.
: No informed consent.