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Article History

Received: 2 December 2019

Accepted: 13 January 2020

First Online: 30 January 2020

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: The study was approved from the Institutional Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University (ZU-IRB #5013/18-12-2018). Written informed consent was obtained from all study participants after explaining the details and benefits as well as risks to them. Surrogate consent from the patient’s legal guardian or designated health proxy was permitted in cases where the patient did not have decision-making capacity.

: Consent has been obtained from the participants involved in the study to report their individual patient data.

: The authors declared that they have no conflicts of interest with respect to the authorship and/or publication of this article.