About the Authors

Elie Alam

Affiliation American University of Beirut Medical Center, Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Beirut, Lebanon

Ossama Abbas

Affiliation American University of Beirut Medical Center, Department of Dermatology, Beirut, Lebanon

Roger Moukarbel

Contributed equally to this work with: Roger Moukarbel, Ibrahim Khalifeh

rm17@aub.edu.lb (RM); ik08@aub.edu.lb (IK)

Affiliation American University of Beirut Medical Center, Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Beirut, Lebanon

Ibrahim Khalifeh

Contributed equally to this work with: Roger Moukarbel, Ibrahim Khalifeh

rm17@aub.edu.lb (RM); ik08@aub.edu.lb (IK)

Affiliation American University of Beirut Medical Center, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Beirut, Lebanon

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EA IK RM. Performed the experiments: EA IK. Analyzed the data: EA IK RM OA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EA IK RM OA. Wrote the paper: EA IK RM.