Liu, Ying
Wu, Bing-Yun
Ma, Zhen-Shen
Xu, Juan-Juan
Yang, Bing
Li, Heng
Duan, Rui-Sheng
Funding for this research was provided by:
Taishan Scholars Construction Engineering of Shandong Province (NO. ts20130914)
Medicine and Health Science Technology Development Programme of Shandong Province (NO. 2015WS0226)
Key Research and Development Plan of Shandong Province (NO. GG201709190225)
Article History
Received: 23 April 2018
Accepted: 15 August 2018
First Online: 21 August 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the ethic committee of the Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, Shandong University. Six patients signed the informed consents and two patients were not contacted before the submission. Exception to the requirement of informed consent was obtained from the ethic committee due to the retrospective study.
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