Liang, Zhuohua
Chen, Shuting
Cheng, Wenjie
Qin, Si
Hong, Xiaofang
Guan, Xueting
Zhou, Jie
Liu, Guangjian https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5224-008X
Funding for this research was provided by:
Guangdong Provincial Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases (2020B1111170004)
Article History
Received: 21 November 2025
Accepted: 23 February 2026
First Online: 16 April 2026
Declarations
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: This study was approved by the institutional ethics review board at the Sixth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University (no. 2024ZSLYEC-337). Due to the retrospective design of the study and the use of de-identified data, informed consent from individual participants was waived by the ethics committee.
: The requirement for written consent forms was waived owing to the retrospective nature of the study.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.