Sezİklİ, Ismail https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6801-1465
Topcu, Ramazan
Tutan, Mehmet Berksun https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1834-7355
Aslan, Orhan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1982-0792
Yüksek, Mahmut Arif https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8323-7390
Article History
Received: 8 July 2024
Accepted: 17 February 2025
First Online: 24 February 2025
Declarations
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This exploratory, retrospective, single-center cohort study was conducted in accordance with the most recent version of the Declaration of Helsinki. The study received approval from the local ethics committee of the Hitit University Faculty of Medicine (2023/71). Given the retrospective design of the study, the ethics committee granted a waiver for written informed consent. The informed consent was waived by IRB (Clinical Research Ethics Committee of Hitit University Faculty of Medicine) The data collection and manuscript preparation processes were conducted in accordance with the guidelines set forth by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) initiative.