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Article History

Received: 25 November 2020

Accepted: 28 February 2021

First Online: 17 March 2021

Declarations

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: This prospective case-control study was approved by the Ethical Committee of Scientific Research of the Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University together with departmental approval from the ethics committee of the Radiology Department of Ain Shams University.The ethics committee reference number is not applicable in this study as the protocol of this study was prepared by 2017 and we started patient enrollment and data collection by 2018–2019 which at such time the ethics committee reference number system was not established in our institute.Also, we did not make any changes in the protocol or methodology throughout the period of the study from the time of ethics committee approval and this technique is a well-established technique worldwide. All procedures performed in the study involving human participants were following the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.The whole procedure is explained in detail to the patients, and they received detailed written information that explains the entire procedure and any possible risks that may happen. All patients included in this study gave written informed consent to participate in this research.

: All patients included in this research gave informed written consent to publish the data contained within this study.

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