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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