Muranda, Albert Z.
Greeff, Ludolf
Sathekge, Mike M.
Lengano, Thabo
Karusseit, Victor O. L.
Article History
Received: 16 September 2016
Accepted: 9 April 2018
First Online: 23 April 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The consent for the study of the patient for the purpose of publication was granted by the Research Ethics Committee of The Faculty of Health Sciences of The University of Pretoria, Ref Nr 297/2016.
: We were unable to obtain patient consent for this case report. The patient is deceased and we have not been able to trace their next of kin or any family members. Our case meets the criteria specified by the Committee on Publication Ethics’ Code of Conduct for publication of case reports that relate to a deceased person. This has been presented to the Research Ethics Committee of The Faculty of Health Sciences of The University of Pretoria who have given signed approval that exhaustive attempts have been made to contact the family and that the paper has been sufficiently anonymised not to cause harm to the patient’s family.
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