Sarcognato, Samantha
Gringeri, Enrico
Fassan, Matteo
Di Giunta, Michela
Maffeis, Valeria
Guzzardo, Vincenza
Cillo, Umberto
Guido, Maria
Article History
Received: 21 June 2018
Revised: 24 September 2018
Accepted: 17 October 2018
First Online: 30 October 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
: The study complies with the ethical guidelines of the 1975 Declaration of Helsinki and obtained the approval from the local Ethics Committee (Ethics Committee for Clinical Research—University Hospital of Padova, Italy; protocol #: 0038038/2017).
: All the patients gave their appropriate informed consent to the surgical procedure.
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All of the authors confirm that each of them qualifies for every one of the 4 criteria of authorship.