Melo, Giulianno Molina http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8220-6317
Neves, Murilo Catafesta http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8094-6298
Rosano, Marcello http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3026-466X
Vanni, Christiana Maria Ribeiro Salles http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1867-3492
Abrahao, Marcio http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0184-1437
Cervantes, Onivaldo http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8651-2207
Article History
Received: 2 July 2021
Accepted: 29 December 2021
First Online: 8 January 2022
Declarations
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: This study was approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee (CAAE: 95881418.2.0000.5483, number 2.934.247) in October 2018. The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and registered with the WHO Universal Trial Number (UTN) number (U1111-1247-7028) and the Brazilian Clinical Trials Registry (ReBeC), whose number is RBR-6p8zfs. This study is in accordance with the Preferred Reporting of Case Series in Surgery (PROCESS) criteria [CitationRef removed], Strengthening the Reporting of Cohort Studies in Surgery (STROCSS) [CitationRef removed] and the Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence guidelines (SQUIRE 2.0) [CitationRef removed].
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.