Updates are available Correction dated 2021-10-29
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Authors
Li, Jia-wei
Cao, Yu-cheng
Zhao, Zhi-jin
Shi, Zhao-ting
Duan, Xiao-qian
Chang, Cai
Chen, Jian-gang
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81627804, 81830058)
Shanghai Association for Science and Technology (SACA-AX201905)
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Article History
Received: 6 March 2021
Revised: 28 June 2021
Accepted: 15 July 2021
First Online: 14 September 2021
Change Date: 29 October 2021
Change Type: Correction
Change Details: A Correction to this paper has been published:
Change Details: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-021-08345-3
Declarations
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Prof. Jiangang 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.
: Informed written consent was signed by all patients.
: Institutional Review Board approval was acquired (Ref No 1802181–22-NSFC). There was no animal-related experiment in the study and therefore, no ethical approval for animal studies was applied.
: There were 252 patients in the present study. A cohort of 100 patients in this study were published in the previous study in <i>Scientific Reports</i> in 2018 (reference 7 in the present study). A cohort of 90 patients in this study were published in the <i>Chinese Journal of Ultrasonography</i> in 2019 (reference 19 in the present study).
: • retrospective• diagnostic or prognostic study• performed at one institution
