El Mansy, Maryam M. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5395-1710
Rashed, Mohamed F. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0254-5971
Saleh, Reham S.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Research Centre Egypt
Article History
Received: 29 May 2025
Accepted: 11 August 2025
First Online: 19 August 2025
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study was carried out in accordance with the ethical standards laid out in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments and approved by the Medical Research Ethical Committee at the National Research Centre, Egypt; approval number: 0342 on November 26, 2024. For all participants, written informed consent was obtained from the parents, who approved the inclusion of their children in this study. Also, a verbal assent was taken from the children preoperatively.
: All participating children provided verbal assent, and their parents provided written informed consent for publication.