Funding for this research was provided by:
Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province (2016CFB164)
Article History
Received: 8 September 2017
Accepted: 14 February 2018
First Online: 2 March 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Zhanyong Zhu, Yueqiang Zhao and Mosheng Yu declare they have no conflict of interest to disclose. Moris Topaz is one of the inventors of TopClosure® TRS ad CEO of IVT Medical Ltd. manufacturer of the device.
: An ethical committee approval for the above reported procedure was waived by the Medical Ethics Committee of the Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University Review Board.
: Following a detailed review of the intended surgical procedure, the patient consented for the publication of this case report and the use medical information for the purposes of the study.
: This work was partially supported by the research grants from the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province (2016CFB164).