Shiri, Isaac
Rahmim, Arman
Ghaffarian, Pardis
Geramifar, Parham
Abdollahi, Hamid
Bitarafan-Rajabi, Ahmad
Article History
Received: 22 February 2017
Revised: 2 April 2017
Accepted: 19 April 2017
First Online: 31 May 2017
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Hamid Abdollahi, BS, MS, PhD.
: The authors of this manuscript declare no relationships with any companies, whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article.
: This study has received funding by the Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran with the grant number 27870.
: All authors kindly provided statistical advice for this manuscript.One of the authors has significant statistical expertise.
: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all subjects (patients) in this study.
: • prospective• diagnostic or prognostic study/experimental• multicenter study