Villa, G. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3154-6263
Campisi, C. C.
Ryan, M.
Boccardo, F.
Di Summa, P.
Frascio, M.
Sambuceti, G.
Campisi, C.
Article History
Received: 24 May 2018
Revised: 10 December 2018
Accepted: 11 December 2018
First Online: 7 January 2019
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: Giuseppe. Villa, Corrado C Campisi, Melissa Ryan, Francesco Boccardo, Pietro di Summa, Marco Frascio, Gianmario Sambuceti, and Corradino Campisi declare that they have no conflict of interest. There is no source of funding.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: The institutional board of our Institution reviewed the study and approved it as a retrospective study, waiving the need for formal consent. Although no formal consent was required, patients gave their written consent to use their anonymous data.