Kavabata, Norberto K. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2910-8894
Caly, Décio N.
Ching, Ting H.
Gonçalves, Antonio J.
Kowalski, Luis P.
Cernea, Cláudio R.
Article History
Received: 29 January 2019
Accepted: 30 April 2019
First Online: 4 June 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The study protocol was approved by all four Ethics Committees of the participating institutions (protocols 228/03, 774/04, 605/04 and 291/04) and all procedures performed in study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: A formal consent was released by all four Ethics Committees due to the retrospective nature of the study.