From the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, South Korea.
Received May 23, 2022, and accepted for publication, after revision December 8, 2022.
Conflicts of interest and sources of funding: None.
Reprints: Seokchan Eun, MD, PhD, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, 82 Gumi-ro 173beon-gil, Bundang-gu, Seongnam 463-707, Korea. E-mail: [email protected].
Presented as an abstract in the 21st Congress of the Asian Society for Vascular Surgery, October 21, 2020, Seoul.
All authors have read and approved the manuscript. J.H.K., Y.K., and S.E. did the designing. J.H.K., Y.K., and S.E. did the coordinating. Y.K. and J.H.K. did the literature search. J.H.K. and S.E. did the quality assessment. Y.K. and J.H.K. did the data analysis. J.H.K., Y.K., and S.E. did the data interpretation. J.H.K. and Y.K. did the writing.
All data sets that the conclusion is based on is referred in the article text. The data sets analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
This study was approved by the ethics committee (IRB no. B-2010-640-110) in the Seoul National University Bundang hospital. Informed consent was obtained from all subjects, and all methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations.
Written informed consent for publication was obtained from each participant.
