Li, Xiaoxia
Lin, Dengqiang
Xiong, Ying
Lin, Weifeng
Zhang, Shaoting
Huang, Shunfa
Zhou, Jianjun https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4175-0513
Dai, Chenchen
Funding for this research was provided by:
the Scientific Research Project of Fujian for Youth (2020QNB062)
the Scientific Research Project of Fujian for Youth (2020QNB061)
the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province (no. 2024J011442)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (82202106)
Article History
Received: 28 September 2024
Revised: 11 December 2024
Accepted: 29 January 2025
First Online: 20 February 2025
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Professor Zhou Jianjun in the Department of Radiology at Zhongshan Hospital (Xiamen), affiliated with Fudan University, located in Xiamen, China.
: 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.
: No complex statistical methods were necessary for this paper.
: The requirement for informed consent was waived.
: This retrospective study was conducted across multiple centers, following the ethical standards outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki and receiving approval from the ethics committees of the respective participating hospitals.
: Some study samples were sourced from previous studies (Dai et al []). Building upon this foundation, we incorporated additional multicenter study cases and extended the follow-up periods. This approach diverged significantly from earlier studies that primarily focused on tumor irregularity.
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