Article History
Received: 25 July 2018
Accepted: 15 March 2019
First Online: 2 April 2019
Authors’ information
: DC - Advanced Trainee in Orthopaedic Surgery, Year 4 Southside region (AOA), Bachelor of Science (Anatomy) and Masters of Science (Physiology) (McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada) MBBS (University of Sydney, Sydney , NSW, Australia)AG - MBBS (University of NSW, Kensington, NSW, Australia), Fellow of Royal Australian College of Surgeons (Orthopaedics), Visiting Medical Officer (Sydney Adventist Hospital, Macquarie Hospital, Norwest Private Hospital)AL - MBBS (University of Sydney, Sydney , NSW, Australia), PhD ( University of Sydney, Sydney , NSW, Australia) Fellow of Royal Australian College of Surgeons (Orthopaedics), Senior Lecturer University of Sydney, Visiting Medical Officer (Sydney Adventist Hospital, Macquarie Hospital, Norwest Private Hospital),
: Ethics for this paper was given by the University of New South Wales, UNSW Ref # HC12169. A waiver for individual patient consent was granted by the approving committee .Patients consented for imaging and creation of patient specific instrumentation with the individual surgeons however there was no direct communication between the company and patients.De-identified data was recorded retrospectively and no individual data was published in this manuscript. No consent was needed to participate in this study. Zimmer Biomet provided written consent for publication of an example of the ‘Signature’ surgical template image. This is available on request.
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