Ma, Lichao
Guo, Liuji
Li, Xiaodan
Qin, Jie
He, Wenle
Xiao, Xiang
Lu, Lijun
Xu, Yikai
Wu, Yuankui http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5140-4860
Funding for this research was provided by:
Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (S201301005689)
the Science and Technology Program of Guangzhou (201707010003)
the Special Foundation of President of Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University (2016B026)
Article History
Received: 17 October 2018
Revised: 15 November 2018
Accepted: 14 December 2018
First Online: 8 February 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Prof. Dr. Yuankui Wu, Department of Medical Imaging, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University.
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: No complex statistical methods were necessary for this paper.
: Written informed consent was waived by the institutional review board.
: Institutional review board approval was obtained.
: • retrospective• case-control study• performed at one institution