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Consort flow diagram. A total of 20 patients were evaluated for the study with 8 patients not meeting inclusion criteria and 2 declining to participate. 10 patients were included in the treatment arm with no patients lost to follow up. 20 patients were randomly selected to be a part of the case-control arm (12).
