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Article History
Received: 6 September 2018
Accepted: 11 January 2019
First Online: 24 January 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical approval of DeSScipher OT1 has been obtained from all participating centres’ local ethics committees (project coordinator’s ethics board: Ethics Review board of the Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany, approval no 02/13; partners centres ethics review boards: University of Zurich, Switzerland; University of Paris, France; University of Florence Italy; The Second University of Naples, Italy; University of Basel, Switzerland; University College of London, United Kingdom; University of Berlin Charité, Germany; University of Pécs, Hungary; University of Leeds, United Kingdom; and contributors centres ethics boards (additional 21 centres)). Each patient signed a written informed consent form.
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