Acknowledgments
The author would like to thank Prof. Dr. Pawel Krajewski, chairman of
the Department of Forensic Medicine, Warsaw Medical University, for
providing access to fresh human female cadavers and obtaining the study
protocol approval from the local Bioethics Committee. The author also
wishes to express gratitude to Zbigniew Antosz, M. D. from Diagnostics
Consilatione, Poland, who assisted in histologic staining. Finally, the
author wishes to thank those families who donated bodies to science.
Disclosure of interests: The present study did not receive
financial support or personal, political, intellectual, or religious
interests.
Contribution to authorship: it is solo scientific research, and
the author developed the concept and protocol of this investigation and
also carried out the analysis and writing up of the manuscript.
Details of patient’s consent: The family of the deceased
subjects granted permission for the research and publication of the
findings.
Funding: None.
Details of ethics approval: The University Bioethical Committee
approved this experimental research (WUM-AKBE
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