Zipper, C. T.
Friedrich, U.
Backhaus, J.
König, S.
Mavroveli, S.
Wiegering, A.
Olbrecht, S.
Puppe, F.
Günster, S. A.
Dietz, U. A.
Article History
Received: 19 July 2019
Accepted: 17 November 2019
First Online: 2 December 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors disclose that there was no conflict of interest. The study was funded 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 review and ethics board of the Medical Faculty of the University of Wuerzburg was consulted and it did not consider an approval necessary, since the study protocol was not deemed to represent biomedical or epidemiological research (Protocol No. 20161013 02).
: Sensible identificatory data were treated according to the data protection policy of the University of Wuerzburg.
: Consent to video-recording of the procedure without personal identificatory captures was obtained at the beginning of the study from each participant.