Hébert, Steven
Reutter, Heiko
Hanslik, Gregor
Woelfle, Joachim
Conrad, Melanie L.
Fahlbusch, Fabian B.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Universität Augsburg
Article History
Received: 29 September 2025
Accepted: 27 November 2025
First Online: 5 February 2026
Declarations
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: Ethical approval for this retrospective study was obtained from the Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Medicine, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany (approval ID: 24-133-ANF). The requirement for individual informed consent was waived by the Ethics Committee in accordance with § 27 of the Bavarian Hospital Act ( Bayerisches Krankenhausgesetz ) and national regulations governing the secondary use of pseudonymized clinical data.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.