About the Authors

Machiko Arita

Contributed equally to this work with: Machiko Arita, Jolanta Fertala

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jolanta Fertala

Contributed equally to this work with: Machiko Arita, Jolanta Fertala

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Cheryl Hou

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

James Kostas

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Andrzej Steplewski

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Andrzej Fertala

andrzej.fertala@jefferson.edu

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MA JF AF. Data curation: MA JF. Formal analysis: MA JF AF. Funding acquisition: AF. Investigation: MA JF CH JK AS AF. Methodology: MA JF AF. Project administration: AF. Resources: AF. Supervision: AF. Validation: MA JF CH. Writing – original draft: MA JF AF. Writing – review & editing: MA JF CH JK AS AF.