Lin, Jianxiong http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5778-6284
Ye, Hongjian
Yi, Chunyan
Li, Jianying
Yu, Xiaoli
Zhu, Lina
Zhang, Xiaodan
Wu, Xiaofeng
Mao, Haiping
Yu, Xueqing
Yang, Xiao http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-2015
Funding for this research was provided by:
Natural Science Foundation of China (81774069)
National Key R&D Program of China (2016YFC0906101)
Operational Grant of Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory (2017B030314019)
Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province (A2017054)
Guangdong Provincial Programme of Science and Technology (2017A050503003)
Article History
Received: 6 April 2020
Accepted: 30 July 2020
First Online: 13 August 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: We have read and understood <i>International Urology and Nephrology</i>'s policy on conflicts of interest disclosure and declare that we have none.
: The study was conducted in compliance with the Declaration of Helsinki guidelines. The study protocol was approved by the ethics committee of The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University. We obtained written informed consent from all patients at recruitment.
: All participants provided written informed consent before participation.