Kalasauskas, Darius
Kosterhon, Michael https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8811-4699
Kurz, Elena
Schmidt, Leon
Altmann, Sebastian
Grauhan, Nils F.
Sommer, Clemens
Othman, Ahmed
Brockmann, Marc A.
Ringel, Florian
Keric, Naureen
Funding for this research was provided by:
Universitätsmedizin der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Article History
Received: 11 April 2024
Accepted: 26 August 2024
First Online: 4 September 2024
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The local responsible Ethics Committee of the State Medical Association of Rhineland-Palatinate (“Ethik-Kommission bei der Landesärztekammer Rheinland-Pfalz”) reviewed and approved this study (Reference number 2021-15575). According to the federal state hospital law of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany no informed consent is necessary for retrospective data analysis as presented here and therefore the ethics committee waived the need of obtaining informed consent from the patients analyzed in this study. All procedures performed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the Institutional and National Research Commission and the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its subsequent amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: The authors affirm that human research participants provided informed consent for publication of the images in Fig. .