Kulkarni, Rugved V.
Patil, Vijayraj
Bhandare, Manish S.
Chaudhari, Vikram A.
Shrikhande, Shailesh V. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8036-4212
Article History
Received: 12 May 2020
Accepted: 28 July 2020
First Online: 10 August 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The study data was collected in the course of common clinical practice, and accordingly, written informed consent was obtained from the patients before the surgical procedure. All procedures performed in the study were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee. The protocol conformed to the “World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki—Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human subjects” adopted by the 18th WMA General Assembly, Helsinki, Finland, June 1964, as revised in Brazil 2013. In order to protect the patient information, HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) compliance was also ensured throughout the study. There was no requirement of any formal ethical approval as the data was collected in the course of common clinical practice, in retrospective manner.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all the individual participants included in the study.
: All the individual participants signed an informed consent regarding publishing their clinical details and/or clinical images in research study.
: The research was presented as Poster in the Indian Chapter of International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association conference held at Jaipur, India, on February 15–17, 2019. This manuscript has not been published previously and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. It has been approved by all the authors listed and by authorities where this work was carried out. This manuscript will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, including electronically without the written consent of the copyright-holder.