Mansour, Mohamed Ashraf
Patel, Reshmi
Mumtaz, Faiz
Boleti, Ekaterini
Bex, Axel
Tran, Maxine Gia Binh
El-Sheikh, Soha https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4661-1563
Article History
Received: 3 August 2025
Accepted: 28 November 2025
First Online: 3 January 2026
Declarations
:
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
: This study was conducted in accordance with the ethical standards as outlined in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments. The West of Scotland Research Ethics Committee provided ethical approval for this study (REC reference 16/WS/0039; IRAS Project ID: 196635). Informed consent for participation in this study was waived by the West of Scotland Research Ethics Committee, because this retrospective observational study uses anonymized clinical data and historically archived excess tissue from previous clinical diagnosis, and the risk of participation in the study was not greater than the minimum risk.
: Not applicable.