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Received: 3 July 2017

Accepted: 12 December 2018

First Online: 22 December 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. This study has been approved by the Research Ethics Committee of Guangdong General Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences (No. GDREC2018429H). For this type of study, formal consent is not required.

: The authors have informed all the patients in the present study that their personal details about the SSI treatment would be published on a public journal only for medical study. The patients agreed with the authors to report their personal details in this manuscript. The 72-year-old patient, who was described in the results section, agreed to report his personal details in this manuscript and had signed the informed consent.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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