Zarei-Kordshouli, Forough
Geramizadeh, Bita
Khodakaram-Tafti, Azizollah https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3559-5801
Funding for this research was provided by:
Shiraz University (94GRD1M1310)
Article History
Received: 10 July 2018
Accepted: 13 December 2018
First Online: 7 January 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical approval was obtained from the Ethical Committees of Shiraz University and Shiraz University of Medical Sciences. A written informed consent was signed before enrollment, for participants under 18 years old the informed consent was signed by their respective guardians before enrollment. There have been no live animals used or tested on in this study. Also, we used only paraffin embedded tissues and the name and characteristics of the patients have not been revealed. Confidentiality of the information was assured through handling the information by locking the document with a password, storing in a file by assigning a code number to it and omitting the name of participants. Written informed consent has been obtained from the patients.
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