Heitz, Linda
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Kratzer, Wolfgang
Gräter, Tilmann
Schmidberger, Julian
Article History
Received: 4 July 2018
Accepted: 7 March 2019
First Online: 18 March 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The Ethics Committee of the Baden-Württemberg Medical Association approved both the EMIL-I study in 2002 and the EMIL-II study in 2013 (Application numbers 133/02 and 244/13, respectively). The participating patients gave their written informed consent.
: Not applicable.
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