Bouchareb, Yassine http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8819-9736
Tag, Naima
Sulaiman, Hajir
Al-Riyami, Khulood
Jawa, Zabah
Al-Dhuhli, Humoud
Article History
Received: 5 October 2022
Revised: 16 January 2023
Accepted: 1 March 2023
First Online: 20 March 2023
Declarations
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: Yassine Bouchareb, Naima Tag, Hajir Sulaiman, Khulood Al-Riyami, Zabah Jawa, and Humoud Al-Dhuhli declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of college of medicine and health sciences, Sultan Qaboos University (ethics approval certificate can be sent upon request). As per the policy of our institution, the ethical approval of retrospective studies grants the use of patients’ data in clinical research projects (no consent to participate is required). Patients’ scans used in the study were part of the routine care, and were in accordance with the Helsinki declaration as revised in 2013 and its later amendments.
: As per the policy of our institution, the ethical approval of retrospective studies grants the use of non-identifiable patients’ data in papers for publication.