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Article History

Received: 2 May 2018

Accepted: 15 June 2018

First Online: 31 July 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: Institutional animal care and committee approval was obtained for the use of a swine model of this study. The animal received appropriate care from properly trained professional staff in compliance with both the Principles of Laboratory Animal Care and the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, approved by the Animal Care and Use Committees of The Hebrew University and in accordance with National Institutes of Health guidelines.Ethics committee approval is not required for the use of cadaveric body parts. The cadaver was donated willingly to science and obtained from (Medcure, Orlando, FL, USA).

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: Marco Solbiati, Katia M Passera, Alessandro Rotilio, Francesco Oliva and Ilaria Marre are employees of R.A.W. Srl and developers of the described technique. Tiziana Ierace and Luigi Solbiati declare they have no conflict of interest to disclose. S. Nahum Goldberg performs unrelated consulting for Angiodynamics and Cosman Instruments.

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