Giuliana Favara: Role: Data curationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Andrea Maugeri: Role: Data curationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Martina Barchitta: Role: Data curationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Andrea Ventura: Role: Data curationRole: Writing – review & editing
Guido Basile: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Writing – review & editing
Antonella Agodi:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4405-8162
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Writing – review & editing
Ibrahim Umar Garzali: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS One
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
30
September
2022
Publication date Collection: 2022
Volume: 17
Issue: 9
Electronic Location Identifier: e0275427
Affiliations
[1
]
Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences and Advanced Technologies "GF Ingrassia",
University of Catania, Catania, Italy
[2
]
Department of General Surgery and Medical-Surgical Specialties, University of Catania,
Catania, Italy
Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, NIGERIA
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-22-21559
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0275427
PMC ID: 9524677
SO-VID: 895533cf-7080-48bb-a499-bc5ed2ce70ed
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