Maier, Dirk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9740-6474
Tuecking, Lars-Rene
Bernstein, Anke
Lang, Gernot
Wagner, Ferdinand Christian
Jaeger, Martin
Ogon, Peter
Südkamp, Norbert Paul
Izadpanah, Kaywan
Funding for this research was provided by:
Alwin Jäger Stiftung (1027063401)
Article History
Received: 17 June 2020
Accepted: 26 August 2020
First Online: 4 September 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was approved by the local institutional review board (protocol number 490/13) at Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Germany. Informed consent was obtained from all patients before study participation. All studies were performed in accordance with the ethical standards as laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. All patients provided written informed consent prior to study inclusion.
: Not applicable.
: The authors DM, LRT, AB, GL, FCW, MJ, PO, NPS, and KI declare that they have no competing interests. DM is a medical consultant for Arthrex, Inc., Naples, FL, USA.