Del Re, Marzia
Bordi, Paola
Rofi, Eleonora
Restante, Giuliana
Valleggi, Simona
Minari, Roberta
Crucitta, Stefania
Arrigoni, Elena
Chella, Antonio
Morganti, Riccardo
Tiseo, Marcello
Petrini, Iacopo
Danesi, Romano
Funding for this research was provided by:
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca
Article History
Received: 23 February 2018
Revised: 16 July 2018
Accepted: 31 July 2018
First Online: 6 November 2018
Competing interests
: T.M. received honoraria for participation in advisory boards and speakers’ bureau of Astra-Zeneca. R.D. received a unrestricted research grant from Astra-Zeneca. The other Authors declare no competing interests.
: This work was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Area Vasta Nord Ovest Toscana (Italy) under the reference number 612/2015 and was conducted in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. Patients were instructed about the experimental procedures of the study and enrolled after signature of the informed consent.
: No individual person’s data are reported.
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