He, Min
Xu, Xinsen
Feng, Hao
Chen, Wei
Liu, Houbao
Zhang, Yongjie
Wang, Jianming
Geng, Zhimin
Qiu, Yudong
Duan, Weidong
Li, Xiangcheng
Zhi, Xuting
Zhu, Weihua
Li, Fuyu
Li, Jiangtao
Li, Shengping
He, Yu
Quan, Zhiwei
Wang, Jian
Funding for this research was provided by:
Study group of biliary surgery of the surgical branch of the Chinese Medical Association (NA)
Article History
Received: 9 November 2018
Accepted: 20 July 2019
First Online: 23 August 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Central ethical approval has been obtained from the institutional review board at the primary site (Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200127, People’s Republic of China). We will not begin recruiting at other centers in the trial until local ethical approval has been obtained. Informed consent will be obtained from all study participants.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.