Zhang, Jin Long
Yuan, Kai
Wang, Mao Qiang
Yan, Jie Yu
Wang, Yan
Zhang, Guo Dong
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Scientific Foundation Committee of China (81471769)
the central health research project (2013BJ09)
Chinese PLA Scientific Foundation of the Twelve-Five Programme (BWS11J028)
Article History
Received: 11 October 2017
Accepted: 17 October 2018
First Online: 24 October 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was conducted with the approval of the hospital review boards of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army General Hospital and was performed according to the ethical standards laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments. Written informed consent was obtained from all of the patients for the PAE procedure. Additional informed consent was not required for this retrospective study.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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