Li, Xiaojing
Li, Yirui
Ma, Qing
Xu, Yilin
Zhu, Ye
Zhang, Jing
Shen, Junkang
Cai, Wu
Wei, Chaogang
Jiang, Zhen
Article History
Received: 22 August 2025
Accepted: 24 February 2026
First Online: 4 March 2026
Declarations
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: The datasets generated and analysed during the current study are not publicly available due to ethical obligations to protect patient confidentiality and the dataset’s integral role in an ongoing longitudinal research program, but are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
: This study was performed in line with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. Approval was granted by the Ethics Committee of The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University. (Approval number: JD-LK-2022–060-01).Written informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: All patients signed informed consent regarding publishing their data and photographs.
: The authors declare no competing interests.