Ziccardi, Lucia http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5563-1243
Parisi, Vincenzo
Picconi, Fabiana
Di Renzo, Antonio
Lombardo, Marco
Frontoni, Simona
Parravano, Mariacristina
Article History
Received: 19 June 2018
Accepted: 6 August 2018
First Online: 28 August 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. All authors certify that they have no affiliations with or involvement in any organization or entity with any financial interest (such as honoraria; educational grants; participation in speakers’ bureaus; membership, employment, consultancies, stock ownership, or other equity interest; and expert testimony or patent-licensing arrangements, proprietary interest), or non-financial interest (such as personal or professional relationships, affiliations, knowledge or beliefs) in the subject matter or materials discussed in this manuscript.
: All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national, local ethics committee: Comitato Etico Centrale IRCCS Lazio, Sezione IFO/Fondazione Bietti, Rome, Italy) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.