“…Our study results were in concordance with the world-wide pattern of the disease's young age incidence [1,3,7,[16][17][18][19], with mean age (SD) 10.68 (14.07) years. We also found that there was relatively higher incidence of the disease in males (58.33 %) which is similar to what was found by other researchers in our region, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait [16] whereas other researchers reported relative predominance of females [18,20].…”