Acknowledgment
The authors acknowledge the contribution of Jill K. Gregory, CMI, FAMI,
certified medical illustrator, Associate Director of Instructional
Technology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, for the rendering
of the illustration in Fig 1.
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