Ghorbanyjavadpour, Fataneh http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1458-0662
Jamali, Kosar
Roayaei Ardakani, Maryam
Rakhshan, Vahid http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9503-3133
Article History
Received: 5 October 2023
Accepted: 16 January 2024
First Online: 7 February 2024
Declarations
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: The study was anonymous and did not collect any identifier or personal information of the patients apart from their anonymously taken sex; the results of the study were completely confidential and will be used only for research purposes. The study was retrospective and used retrospectively taken material; the need for any signed informed consents was waived by the Institutional Review Board of Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran (ethics approval code: IR.AJUMS.REC.1399.455). The study protocol and its ethics were approved by the Institutional Review Board of Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran (code: IR.AJUMS.REC.1399.455). All methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations (including the Declaration of Helsinki); all experimental protocols were approved by the Institutional Review Board of Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran.
: NA.
: The authors declare no competing interests.