Lin, Xianwen https://orcid.org/0009-0004-2983-3636
Liu, Zhiwei
Zhou, Kun https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4758-9049
Li, Yuedan
Huang, Genjie
Zhang, Hao
Shu, Tingting
Huang, Zhenhua
Wang, Yuanyuan
Zeng, Wei
Liao, Yulin https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5961-390X
Bin, Jianping
Shi, Min
Liao, Wangjun https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1364-8442
Zhou, Wenlan https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9056-4835
Huang, Na https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7961-0677
Article History
Received: 2 May 2024
Revised: 17 December 2024
Accepted: 23 January 2025
First Online: 10 February 2025
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: All methods and procedures performed in studies involving human participants were conducted according to the ethical standards of national research committee and the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. This retrospective study was approved by the ethics committee of Nanfang Hospital of Southern Medical University (NFEC-2019-265). Patient informed consent was obtained for the use of pathological specimens, while the use of clinical data, laboratory test results, and 18F-FDG PET/CT waived the need for patient informed consent.