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Article History

Received: 26 May 2020

Accepted: 21 November 2020

First Online: 3 January 2021

Compliance with ethical standards

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: Lorenzo Iuliano, Erika Kacerik, Eleonora Corbelli, Marco Codenotti: none. Francesco Bandello is a consultant for Alcon (Fort Worth, Texas, USA), Alimera Sciences (Alpharetta, Georgia, USA), Allergan Inc (Irvine, California, USA), Farmila-Thea (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Bayer Shering-Pharma (Berlin, Germany), Bausch And Lomb (Rochester, New York, USA), Genentech (San Francisco, California, USA), Hoffmann-La-Roche (Basel, Switzerland), Novagali Pharma (Évry, France), Novartis (Basel, Switzerland), Sanofi-Aventis (Paris, France), Thrombogenics (Heverlee,Belgium), Zeiss (Dublin, USA).

: All the procedures performed involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the Institutional Review Board of the San Raffaele Scientific Institute and with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments.

: All patients signed a general informed consent form, which was specifically designed and approved by the Institutional Review Board of the San Raffaele Scientific Institute solely for participants of observational retrospective studies.

: All authors concur with the submission and agree for publication.