Farrokhian, Alireza
Raygan, Fariba
Soltani, Ali
Tajabadi-Ebrahimi, Maryam
Sharifi Esfahani, Mehran
Karami, Ali Akbar
Asemi, Zatollah
Article History
First Online: 27 October 2017
Change Date: 8 September 2020
Change Type: Clarification
Change Details: Editor's Note: The Editor-in-Chief is currently investigating this article as concerns have been raised about integrity of the clinical trial reported here. There is also an ongoing investigation by the Iranian National Committee for Ethics in Biomedical Researches. Further editorial action will be taken as appropriate once the investigation into the concerns is complete and all parties have been given an opportunity to respond in full.
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All procedures followed in the paper were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008. Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study.