Author declaration
- Conflict of Interest
Potential conflict of interest exists:
We wish to draw the attention of the Editor to the following facts, which may be considered as potential conflicts of interest, and to significant financial contributions to this work:
The nature of potential conflict of interest is described below:
No conflict of interest exists.
We wish to confirm that there are no known conflicts of interest associated with this publication and there has been no significant financial support for this work that could have influenced its outcome.
- Funding
Funding was received for this work.
All of the sources of funding for the work described in this publication are acknowledged below:
[List funding sources and their role in study design, data analysis, and result interpretation]
No funding was received for this work.
- Intellectual Property
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- Research Ethics
We further confirm that any aspect of the work covered in this manuscript that has involved human patients has been conducted with the ethical approval of all relevant bodies and that such approvals are acknowledged within the manuscript.
IRB approval was obtained (required for studies and series of 3 or more cases)
Written consent to publish potentially identifying information, such as details or the case and photographs, was obtained from the patient(s) or their legal guardian(s).
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- Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND
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- Final approval of the version to be published; AND
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All listed authors meet the ICMJE criteria. We attest that all authors contributed significantly to the creation of this manuscript, each having fulfilled criteria as established by the ICMJE.
One or more listed authors do(es) not meet the ICMJE criteria.
We believe these individuals should be listed as authors because:
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7. Acknowledgement
The authors should give acknowedgement section if applicable.
8. Data Availability statement
The datasets generated and/or analysed during the current study are available in the [NAME] repository, [PERSISTENT WEB LINK TO DATASETS]
• The datasets used and/or analysed during the current study available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
• All data generated or analysed during this study are included in this published article [and its supplementary information files].
• The datasets generated and/or analysed during the current study are not publicly available due [REASON WHY DATA ARE NOT PUBLIC] but are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
• The data that support the findings of this study are available from [third party name] but restrictions apply to the availability of these data, which were used under license for the current study, and so are not publicly available. Data are however available from the authors upon reasonable request and with permission of [third party name].
9. Ethics approval and consent to participate
Applicable or Not applicable
10. Consent for publication
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