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Fan, J. K. M.
Liu, J.
Chen, K.
Yang, X.
Xu, X.
Choi, H. K.
Chan, F. S. Y.
Chiu, K. W. H.
Lo, C. M.
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Article History
Received: 10 March 2018
Accepted: 23 March 2018
First Online: 21 April 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: JKMF declares no conflict of interest; JL declares no conflict of interest; KC declares no conflict of interest; XY declares no conflict of interest; XX declares no conflict of interest; HKC declares no conflict of interest; FSYC declares no conflict of interest; KWHC declares no conflict of interest; CML declares no conflict of interest.
: The trial was approved by the Ethics Committee of the University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital. Shenzhen, China and registered at ExternalRef removed (ID# NCT02762747). All procedures involving human participants were performed in accordance with the ethical standards of our institutional research committee and the study was conducted according to the ethical standards of the Helsinki Declaration of 1975.
: This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study after detail explanation of possible complications. Patients were then given at least 24 h for consideration of participating in the clinical trial before operation.
