Kennedy, Susan
Rice, Michael
Toomey, Sinead
Horgan, Noel
Hennessey, Bryan T.
Larkin, Annemarie
Funding for this research was provided by:
Science Foundation Ireland (08/SRC/B1410)
Royal victoria eye and ear hospital research foundation
Article History
Received: 26 April 2018
Accepted: 5 July 2018
First Online: 14 July 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: This study was approved by the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital Ethics committee. This study involved retrospective analysis of archived patient material; informed consent was not required at the time these samples were collected. All procedures involving archival human patient material were performed in according to both Institutional (Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital and Dublin City University Ethics Committees) and National Ethics Guidelines and, in accordance with the Helsinki declaration and its later amendments. This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors.