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, 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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