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Authors
Hajikarimloo, Bardia
Mohammadzadeh, Ibrahim
Tos, Salem M.
Habibi, Mohammad Amin
Sabahi, Mohammadmahdi
Adada, Badih
Borghei-Razavi, Hamid
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Article History
Received: 18 March 2026
Accepted: 20 May 2026
First Online: 28 May 2026
Declarations
Ethical approval: The study is deemed exempt from receiving ethical approval.
Consent to participate: Not applicable.
Consent to publish: Not applicable.
Clinical trial number: Not applicable.
AI usage: During manuscript preparation, the authors used Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's ChatGPT for language refinement. These tools were not used to design the study, conduct or interpret analyses, generate data, or produce citations. All analyses were performed by the authors in R (v4.4.2). All references were independently verified by the authors against primary sources. All AI-assisted text was reviewed and verified by the authors, who take full responsibility for the manuscript's content. No confidential patient information was shared.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.
