Shang, Xian-Jin
Shi, Zhong-Hua
He, Cai-Feng
Zhang, Shuai
Bai, Yong-Jie
Guo, Yong-Tao
Sun, Bo
Li, Shun
Wang, Huai-Ming
Zhou, Zhi-Ming
Zi, Wen-Jie
Liu, Xin-Feng
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81530038, 81400993, 81671172 and 81701184)
National Key Research and Development Program (2017YFC1307901)
Chinese Postdoctoral Science Fund (2015M572815)
Article History
Received: 20 July 2018
Accepted: 19 June 2019
First Online: 5 July 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The local Ethics Committees of each center (Jinling Hospital, Yijishan Hospital, Fuzhou General Hospital of Nanjing Military Region, Affiliated Hospital of Yangzhou University, Daping Hospital, Hubei Zhongshan Hospital, and No.123 Hospital of the People’s Liberation Army) approved the use of patients’ data for this study, and written consents of the patients were waived due to its retrospective nature.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.