Weinreb, Jeffrey H. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3652-6253
Iweala, Uchechi
Matteini, Lauren E.
Yu, Warren D.
O’Brien, Joseph R.
Article History
Received: 13 March 2019
Accepted: 1 July 2019
First Online: 29 July 2019
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: Jeffrey H. Weinreb, MD, Uchechi Iweala, MD, MBA, and Lauren E. Matteini, MD, declare that they have no conflicts of interest. Joseph R. O’Brien, MD, MPH, reports stock or stock options from Alphatec Spine, K2M, and Spinicity/ISD; royalties, personal fees, and research support from Globus Medical; personal fees and research support from Medtronic; royalties from NuVasive; and royalties, consulting fees, research support, and stock or stock options from Regeneration Technologies, outside the submitted work. Warren D. Yu, MD, reports consulting fees from 4WEB; personal fees from AO Foundation, Choice Spine, Globus Medical, and MiMedx; royalties, personal fees, and stock or stock options from SpineArt, Inc.; royalties from Romeo Pedicle Screws; and personal fees from Integra, Inc., and Interventional Spine, Inc., outside the submitted work.
: All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2013.
: Informed consent was waived from all patients for being included in this study.
: Disclosure forms provided by the authors are available with the online version of this article.