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Patient flow diagram. Red boxes represent patients that were excluded and replaced. Green boxes represent patients who completed the trial, or dropped out after two PIPACs but were considered to be eligible for study analysis. The need for replacement of patients was calculated based on the time-to-event continual reassessment method. The results of 20 patients (green boxes) were used for the analysis of this clinical trial.
