Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

Authors confirm that in the ORIGINAL SCIENTIFIC ARTICLE at the end of the Methods section the following statement has been added:
- The study design was approved by the relevant Ethics Committee (number, date).

Authors confirm that for the CASE REPORTS informed consent of the patient/parents was obtained. The following statement has been added at the end of the Conclusion section:
- The patient gave informed consent for the publication of his/her case.
- The parent of a case patient signed the informed consent form for the publication.

Authors confirm that the statement of Conflict of Interest has been added at the end of their article, before the References. If no Conflict of Interest is declared, this will be stated in the article using the following wording: 'Conflict of interest: none declared'

We confirm that we have checked and are following the instructions for an article submission: Manuscript Submission and Manuscript Preparation.