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Article History

Received: 10 January 2025

Accepted: 14 March 2025

First Online: 7 May 2025

Declarations

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: All procedures, including patient selection and data collection, were approved by the Ethical Committee of the College of Medicine, Hawler Medical University, Erbil, Iraq. Before any of it occurred, written informed consent was obtained from the patients for the surgery, research participation, and publication of results. The Helsinki Declaration of 1964 and its later revisions were followed throughout all study phases to ensure the highest level of ethical conduct. The hospital admission consent already included provisions for protecting patient data and authorization for the data review process.

: Not applicable, no personal information or images of any kind are included in the research. Requested access to the raw data used in this study will not reveal any personally identifiable information about any participant.

: The authors declare no competing interests.