About the Authors

Houssein Darwish

Contributed equally to this work with: Houssein Darwish, Tasnim Diab, Sarah Kawtharani

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

Tasnim Diab

Contributed equally to this work with: Houssein Darwish, Tasnim Diab, Sarah Kawtharani

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

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Naef K Bassile Cancer Institute, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

Sarah Kawtharani

Contributed equally to this work with: Houssein Darwish, Tasnim Diab, Sarah Kawtharani

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

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

Mounir Barake

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

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Naef K Bassile Cancer Institute, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

Bader Ali

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

Nagham Ramadan

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Naef K Bassile Cancer Institute, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

Hiba Fadlallah

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Jeannot Kekedjian

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Naef K Bassile Cancer Institute, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

Marwan Najjar

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

Hazem I. Assi

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ha157@aub.edu.lb

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Naef K Bassile Cancer Institute, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.