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Rahul Gupta1 \*, Nalini Bansal<sup>2</sup> , Houssem Ammar3 and Jyoti Gupta4

1 Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Synergy Institute of Medical Sciences, Dehradun, India

2 Department of Histopathology, SRL Ltd., Fortis Escorts Hospital, Okhla, New Delhi, India

3 Department of Surgery, Sousse Hospital, Sousse, Tunisia

4 Department of Radiation Oncology, Swami Rama Himalayan University, Dehradun, India

\*Address all correspondence to: rahul.g.85@gmail.com

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