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 146/12).References
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