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Authors
Lück, Emma
Jovanović, Alisa
Ockelmann, Alina-Marielle
Reihle, Annelie Pauline
Thomassen, Jan Christoph
Körner, Robert Walter https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3164-4952
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Universitätsklinikum Köln
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Article History
Received: 20 May 2026
Accepted: 7 July 2026
First Online: 15 July 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Germany (protocol code: 24-1384-retro, approval date: 22 October 2024).Patient consent was waived due to the retrospective study design using fully anonymized data. This is also in accordance with §15, paragraph 1 of the Professional Code for Physicians in North Rhine-Westphalia, which states that consent is not required for the use of anonymized data or samples that do not permit identification of the individual.
Consent for publication: Not applicable.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.
