Del Brutto, Oscar H. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1917-8805
Rumbea, Denisse A.
Recalde, Bettsy Y.
Mera, Robertino M.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Universidad de Especialidades Espíritu Santo
Article History
Received: 31 October 2022
Accepted: 17 January 2023
First Online: 31 January 2023
Declarations
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: The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest concerning the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
: The Ethics Committee of Hospital-Clínica Kennedy, Guayaquil, Ecuador (FWA 00030727) approved the study. The study followed ethical principles stated in the Declaration of Helsinki.
: All human studies have been approved by the appropriate ethics committee and have therefore been performed in accordance with the ethical standards laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments.
: Study participants signed comprehensive informed consents at enrollment, as well as before the practice of follow-up MRIs.