Liu, Shunan
Zhang, Yuancheng
Bao, Hongda
Yan, Peng
Zhu, Zezhang
Liu, Zhen
Qian, Bangping
Qiu, Yong
Funding for this research was provided by:
Jiangsu Provincial Key Medical Center
Article History
Received: 5 October 2017
Accepted: 26 February 2018
First Online: 7 March 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was conducted in compliance with the Helsinki Declaration to protect human subjects and was approved by the Medical Ethics Committee of Medical School of Nanjing University (the ethics approval number provided by the board was 2,011,052). The written informed consent was obtained from every patient included in the study. If the patients were less than 18 years, the consents would be acquired from their parents.
: The written consent of the patient in Fig. to use her images and individual details in this study was obtained.
: The co-author Zezhang Zhu is the associate editor of this journal. The rest of the authors have no competing interests.
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