Pourafkari, Leili
Baghbani-Oskouei, Aidin
Savadi-Oskouei, Safa
Ghaffari, Samad
Parizad, Raziye
Tajlil, Arezou
Nader, Nader D.
Article History
First Online: 18 March 2019
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: No sources of funding were received for the conduct of this study or the preparation of this article.
: Leili Pourafkari, Aidin Baghbani-Oskouei, Safa Savadi-Oskouei, Samad Ghaffari, Raziye Parizad, Arezou Tajlil, and Nader D. Nader have no conflicts of interest that are directly relevant to the contents of this article.
: All procedures in this study were in accordance with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and the study protocol was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board and Ethics Committee of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences.
: This study was exempted from the informed consent process because of the retrospective design of the study, but all patient data were handled with special care to assure that patient confidentiality was maintained.