Esmat, Ibrahim Mamdouh https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3456-0471
Mohamed, Ahmed Kamal https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6121-8183
Gad, Ihab Ahmed https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9150-5917
Mohamed, Noha Refaat https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8965-243X
Talaat, Sahar Mohamed https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6624-3345
Shorbagy, Mohammed Sayed https://orcid.org/0009-0005-0573-469X
Ashoor, Tarek Mohamed https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0289-8101
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ain Shams University
Article History
Received: 24 September 2025
Accepted: 28 February 2026
First Online: 28 March 2026
Declarations
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: Ethical approval for this study (IRB 6379) was provided by the surgery department of the Faculty of Medicine of Ain-Shams University Hospitals, Cairo, Egypt (Chairperson Prof. Dr. Alaa Al-din Ismail) on 14/6/2020. This study was prospectively registered at Clinical Trials. gov Identifier: NCT04445857 on 24/06/2020 and complied with the standards of the Helsinki Declaration-2013. This study was conducted between September 1, 2020 to the January 31, 2021 after obtaining a written informed consent from each patient before the operation.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.