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The study was approved by the Institutional Ethics committee of our institute and conformed to the ethical standards laid down in the Declaration of Helsinki. This manuscript preparation followed the principles of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) and guidelines of STROBE (The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology) statement. Informed consent was taken from all patients recruited for the study.
The study was a prospective observational study on AFRS patients in a tertiary care teaching hospital. Patients with chronic systemic illness and those undergoing revision surgery were excluded. AFRS was diagnosed based on Bent and Kuhn’s criteria.4 Based on the literature, as it was difficult to fulfill all criteria, especially a positive fungal culture, we came to a diagnosis based on clinical, radiological, and histopathological reports.5, 6