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Article History

Received: 23 May 2019

Accepted: 15 July 2019

First Online: 19 July 2019

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: This is a retrospective review of a cohort of patients. All patients had undergone routine diagnosis and were treated with routine surgery. The patients were not randomised to the treatment, the treatment was not blinded. Each patient with the bioabsorbable screw willingly elected to the use of the new screw device after receiving printed information and after informed consent. The patients all gave their written consent to have all their outcome data, images and demographics included in this review writeup. This project received Ethical Approval from our Research Institution, The Sports Orthopaedics Research Foundation in 2017.

: The patients (all adults) all gave their explicit written consent to have all their outcome data, images and demographics included in this review writeup and for publication.

: AZ is statistical consultant to several medical device companies, including Procon Gmbh, Roche Diabetes Care, Sachtleben GmbH, Syntellix AG. The other authors declare that they have no competing interests.