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Article History
Received: 16 April 2025
Revised: 17 July 2025
Accepted: 29 July 2025
First Online: 23 August 2025
Competing interests
: (Dr. Michael Fehlings as Editor-in-Chief of Spinal Cord had no role in the peer review or adjudication of this manuscript).
: This study was reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committee of Tehran University of Medical Sciences, with the approval code.