Song, Xuefei
Tong, Weilin
Lei, Chaoyu
Huang, Jingxuan
Fan, Xianqun
Zhai, Guangtao
Zhou, Huifang http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8636-861X
Funding for this research was provided by:
the National Key R&D Program of China (2018YFC1106100, 2018YFC1106101)
Interdisciplinary Program of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (ZH2018QNA07, ZH2018ZDA12)
the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai (17DZ2260100, 19410761100, 19DZ2331400)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (61831015, U1908210)
Article History
Received: 22 September 2020
Accepted: 25 March 2021
First Online: 9 April 2021
Declarations
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: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee in Ninth People’s Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China and the 1964 Helsinki declaration and the later amendments or comparable ethical standards. This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital, Shanghai, China (approval number SH9H-2019-T34–1).We obtained verbal consent from study participants, because the information involved in this study was routine information needed for clinical treatment. Its status was similar to that of routine physical examination in our diagnosis and treatment process. Thus, there was no separate written informed consent based on a specific scientific research project. The doctors who carried out the examination informed the patients and their families of the upcoming series of examinations in the routine admission education. The Ethics Committee recognized this process.Administrative permissions were required to access the raw data, granted by the Ethics Committee of Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital, Shanghai, China. All data used in this study was anonymized before its use.
: Written informed consent was obtained from the patients to publish potentially identifying information and clinical images (as shown in Figs. InternalRef removed and InternalRef removed).
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.