Funding for this research was provided by:
Universitätsklinikum Jena
Article History
Received: 17 January 2025
Accepted: 14 May 2025
First Online: 24 May 2025
Declarations
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: The study was approved by the local institutional review board (IRB) at Jena University Hospital (registration number 2019-1505-MV) and conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and applicable ethical standards for retrospective research using pseudonymized postmortem and antemortem data. Written informed consent was not required for either living patients or deceased individuals, as the study was based on pseudonymized CT data. No identifying characteristics of the individuals studied were included in the publication. Human Ethics and Consent to Participate declarations: not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no financial or non-financial conflicts of interest.