About the Authors

Antonina Luca

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Surgery, Kore University of Enna, Enna, Italy

Tiziana Lo Castro

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical, Surgical Sciences and Advanced Technologies, GF Ingrassia, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Giovanni Mostile

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medical, Surgical Sciences and Advanced Technologies, GF Ingrassia, University of Catania, Catania, Italy, Oasi Research Institute-IRCCS Troina, Troina, Italy

Giulia Donzuso

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical, Surgical Sciences and Advanced Technologies, GF Ingrassia, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Calogero Edoardo Cicero

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical, Surgical Sciences and Advanced Technologies, GF Ingrassia, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Alessandra Nicoletti

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical, Surgical Sciences and Advanced Technologies, GF Ingrassia, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Mario Zappia

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

m.zappia@unict.it

Affiliation Department of Medical, Surgical Sciences and Advanced Technologies, GF Ingrassia, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Competing Interests

No authors have competing interests