Liu, Xiaoming
Pan, Fumin
Ba, Zhaoyu
Wang, Shanjin
Wu, Desheng
Funding for this research was provided by:
Key Discipline Construction Project of Shanghai East Hospital (YZX-2015-9)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81371994, 81672199, 81572181)
Article History
Received: 27 December 2017
Accepted: 5 March 2018
First Online: 14 March 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Given the retrospective nature of the study, written consent was not obtained. However, all patient records were anonymized prior to analysis. Then, related data were extracted from the hospital’s electronic and written medical records. The study was reviewed and obtained the approval from Institutional Review Board of Shanghai East Hospital.
: Not applicable.
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