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Topcu, Ramazan https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6214-4868
Tutan, Mehmet Berksun https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1834-7355
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Article History
Received: 15 December 2025
Accepted: 18 March 2026
First Online: 24 March 2026
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: This exploratory, retrospective, single-center cohort study was conducted in accordance with the latest version of the Declaration of Helsinki. Ethical approval was granted by the Hitit University Faculty of Medicine Non-Interventional Studies Ethics Committee on April 7, 2021 (Institutional Review Board approval No: 2021/383).Given the retrospective design, the ethics committee granted a waiver for written informed consent. The waiver was approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of Hitit University Faculty of Medicine. The data collection and manuscript preparation processes were conducted in compliance with the guidelines set forth by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) initiative.
: Not applicable. This study does not include identifiable patient data or images requiring individual consent for publication.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
