Wadhwa, Dhaarna
Mahajan, Vikram K. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0537-4066
Mehta, Karaninder S.
Chauhan, Pushpinder S.
Yadav, Rajinder S.
Bhushan, Satya
Sharma, Vikas
Sharma, Anuj
Sharma, Aditi
Chauhan, Shailja
Article History
Received: 7 June 2018
Revised: 12 February 2019
Accepted: 14 February 2019
First Online: 4 March 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All the authors declare that they have no competing interest and, therefore, nothing else to declare, and have contributed significantly and take full responsibility for the manuscript. The authors of the paper are obliged to confirm that it has not been previously published. The study was not funded by any agency. The clinical data form part of the thesis submitted to Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, (H.P.) for the degree of M.D. (DVL.).
: The study was approved by Institutional Scientific Protocol Review Committee and Institutional Ethics Committee (Rgn no ECR/490/Inst/HP/2013/RR-16). Informed consent was obtained from all the patients for being enrolled in the study. All the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2013.