Chen, Tao http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1306-6538
Ning, Zhenyuan
Xu, Lili
Feng, Xingyu
Han, Shuai
Roth, Holger R.
Xiong, Wei
Zhao, Xixi
Hu, Yanfeng
Liu, Hao
Yu, Jiang
Zhang, Yu
Li, Yong
Xu, Yikai
Mori, Kensaku
Li, Guoxin
Funding for this research was provided by:
the State's Key Project of Research and Development Plan (2017YFC0108300 and 2017YFC0108303)
JSPS KAKENHI Grant (17H00867 and 26108006)
Article History
Received: 23 May 2018
Revised: 16 June 2018
Accepted: 22 June 2018
First Online: 16 August 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Tao Chen.
: The authors of this manuscript declare no relationships with any companies whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article.
: One of the authors has significant statistical expertise: Hao Liu, Department of General Surgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangdong Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center of Minimally Invasive Surgery, Guangzhou 510515, Guangdong Province, China. Hao Liu has completed postdoctoral research of cancer epidemiological statistics in Heidelberg Cancer Center, Germany. Hao Liu specialises in statistical analysis and provided statistical advice in this study.
: Written informed consent or substitute was obtained from all patients in this study.
: Institutional review board approval was obtained.
: • retrospective• diagnostic or prognostic study• multicentre study