Li, Xiaofeng
Gao, Yue
Cheng, Tingting
Lin, Junyan
Lou, Shu
Wang, Lin
Mi, Congbo
Ding, Xu https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0882-8078
Du, Mulong https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2733-6490
Pan, Yongchu https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6899-5994
Article History
Received: 11 January 2025
Accepted: 18 July 2025
First Online: 29 July 2025
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with The Code of Ethics of the World Medical Association (Declaration of Helsinki). Informed consent of all patients in our study was obtained and received ethical approval from Institutional Review Board of Nanjing Medical University (NJMUERC [2008] No. 20).