Salli, Malla I.
Nikunen, Matti
Snäll, Johanna
Funding for this research was provided by:
University of Helsinki including Helsinki University Central Hospital
Article History
Received: 1 August 2021
Accepted: 13 April 2022
First Online: 18 May 2022
Declarations
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: The study was approved by the Internal Review Board of the Head and Neck Centre, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland. The Internal Review Board of the Head and Neck Centre waived the requirement of informed consent due to the retrospective nature of this study. The guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki were followed in this study.
: Patient consent was not required because of the retrospective nature of the study. Consent has been obtained from the patient cases presented in patient/computer tomography images.
: The patients’ anonymity has not been endangered in this study. However, informed consent was obtained from all individual participants who could be theoretically identified from the images.
: The authors declare no competing interests.