Khallaf, Mohammed
Thabet, Ahmed Mostafa
Ali, Mahmoud
Sharkawy, Essam
Abdel-rehim, Sherif
Article History
Received: 11 October 2018
Accepted: 18 March 2019
First Online: 4 April 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Research committee approval has been granted for this study by the Medical Ethics Committee, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University. with ethics committee approval number 17200257 on May 2013. Informed consent according to the criteria set by the local research ethics committee in our centre had to be obtained in writing before surgery. If consent could not be obtained because the patient was in coma or dysphasic consent was obtained from relatives. Through explanation to the purpose of the study and how data will be treated with respect and confidentiality was provided to the participants.
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