About the Authors
- Patrick Hahn
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* E-mail: Patrick-hahn@gmx.de
Affiliation Center for Spine Surgery and Pain Therapy, Center for Orthopaedics and Traumatology of the St. Elisabeth Group – Catholic Hospitals Rhein-Ruhr, St. Anna Hospital Herne/Marienhospital Herne University Hospital/Marien Hospital Witten, Herne, Germany
- Semih Oezdemir
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Affiliation Center for Spine Surgery and Pain Therapy, Center for Orthopaedics and Traumatology of the St. Elisabeth Group – Catholic Hospitals Rhein-Ruhr, St. Anna Hospital Herne/Marienhospital Herne University Hospital/Marien Hospital Witten, Herne, Germany
- Martin Komp
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Affiliation Center for Spine Surgery and Pain Therapy, Center for Orthopaedics and Traumatology of the St. Elisabeth Group – Catholic Hospitals Rhein-Ruhr, St. Anna Hospital Herne/Marienhospital Herne University Hospital/Marien Hospital Witten, Herne, Germany
- Athanasios Giannakopoulos
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Affiliation Center for Spine Surgery and Pain Therapy, Center for Orthopaedics and Traumatology of the St. Elisabeth Group – Catholic Hospitals Rhein-Ruhr, St. Anna Hospital Herne/Marienhospital Herne University Hospital/Marien Hospital Witten, Herne, Germany
- Roderich Heikenfeld
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Affiliation Center for Orthopaedics and Traumatology of the St. Elisabeth Group – Catholic Hospitals Rhein-Ruhr, St. Anna Hospital Herne/Marienhospital Herne University Hospital/Marien Hospital Witten, Herne, Germany
- Richard Kasch
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Affiliation Clinic for Orthopaedics and Orthopaedic Surgery, University Medicine of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Harry Merk
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Affiliation Clinic for Orthopaedics and Orthopaedic Surgery, University Medicine of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Georgios Godolias
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Affiliation Center for Orthopaedics and Traumatology of the St. Elisabeth Group – Catholic Hospitals Rhein-Ruhr, St. Anna Hospital Herne/Marienhospital Herne University Hospital/Marien Hospital Witten, Herne, Germany
- Sebastian Ruetten
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Affiliation Center for Spine Surgery and Pain Therapy, Center for Orthopaedics and Traumatology of the St. Elisabeth Group – Catholic Hospitals Rhein-Ruhr, St. Anna Hospital Herne/Marienhospital Herne University Hospital/Marien Hospital Witten, Herne, Germany
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: PH SO MK AG RH RK HM GG SR. Performed the experiments: PH SO MK AG RH RK HM GG SR. Analyzed the data: PH SO MK AG RH RK HM GG SR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PH SO MK AG RH RK HM GG SR. Wrote the paper: PH SO MK AG RH RK HM GG SR.