Santoro, Angela
Travaglino, Antonio
Inzani, Frediano
Arciuolo, Damiano
Angelico, Giuseppe
D’Alessandris, Nicoletta
Scaglione, Giulia
Valente, Michele
Martini, Maurizio
Raffone, Antonio
Zannoni, Gian Franco http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4473-7560
Article History
Received: 5 August 2021
Accepted: 23 September 2021
First Online: 25 October 2021
Declarations
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: The study complied with the Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects according to the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki. The clinical information had been retrieved from the patients’ medical records and pathology reports. Patients’ initials or other personal identifiers did not appear in any image. Finally, all samples were anonymized before histology and immunohistochemistry. Therefore, no further ethical approval was necessary to perform the study.
: The non-interventional, retrospective nature of our study did not require any informed consent, even if written informed consent had been obtained from the patients before surgical procedures.
: Authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.