Plotnikov, Galina
Waizman, Efraim
Tzur, Irma
Yusupov, Alexander
Shapira, Yonatan
Gorelik, Oleg
Article History
Received: 18 January 2021
Accepted: 15 March 2021
First Online: 31 March 2021
Declarations
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: The study was carried out in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the Ethics Committee of Yitzhak Shamir (Assaf Harofeh) Medical Center, Zerifin, Israel (approval number 0169-20-ASF). Informed consent was not obtained from the patients because it was not requested for this retrospective study. In this design, patients were evaluated and treated according to the discretion of the treating physician rather than research considerations. Moreover, data were collected from electronic medical records and the data used were anonymous. No any administrative permission was required to access and use the medical records described in the study.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.