Louie, Philip K. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4787-1538
Harada, Garrett K.
Sayari, Arash J.
Mayo, Benjamin C.
Khan, Jannat M.
Varthi, Arya G.
Yacob, Alem
Samartzis, Dino
An, Howard S.
Article History
Received: 19 May 2019
Accepted: 29 August 2019
First Online: 30 October 2019
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: Garrett K. Harada, MD, Arash J. Sayari, MD<b>,</b> Benjamin C. Mayo, MD, Jannat M. Khan, BS, Arya G. Varthi, MD, and Alem Yacob, MD, declare that they have no conflicts of interest. Philip K. Louie, MD, reports stock or stock options from StreaMD, outside the submitted work. Dino Samartzis, DSc, reports board or committee membership at AOSpine and International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine; publishing royalties from BMC Scoliosis and Spinal Disorders and Elsevier; and editorial or governing board membership from Global Spine Journal, Scoliosis and Spinal Disorders, and Spine Journal, outside the submitted work. Howard S. An, MD, reports royalties from U & I Corporation and Zimmer Biomet; stock ownership in Articular Engineering, Medyssey Inc., and Spinal Kinetics; consulting fees from Bioventus and Stryker; editorial board membership at American Journal of Orthopaedics and Spine Journal; and research support from Medyssey Inc. and SpinalCyte LLC, 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.