Cordes, Michael https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7706-7498
Götz, Theresa Ida
Horstrup, Karen
Kuwert, Torsten
Schmidkonz, Christian
Article History
Received: 13 April 2019
Accepted: 8 November 2019
First Online: 21 November 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This retrospective study was performed according to the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki and its subsequent amendments and according to the guidelines of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of the Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen/Nuremberg, Germany under the auspices of the Bavarian Hospital Act (Bayerisches Krankenhausgesetz Art. 27 (4)). All patients gave general permission for the use of their clinical data for scientific purposes and written informed consent for the anonymous publication of data.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.