Tan, Yaoju
Su, Biyi
Shu, Wei
Cai, Xingshan
Kuang, Shaojia
Kuang, Haobin
Liu, Jianxiong
Pang, Yu
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Key Project (2015ZX10003003)
Beijing Municipal Administration of Hospitals’ Youth Programme (QML20171601)
Article History
Received: 19 August 2018
Accepted: 18 October 2018
First Online: 9 November 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the Ethical Committee of the Guangzhou Chest Hospital. Informed consent was waived by the institutional review board because all of the patients enrolled in this study had previously provided authorization for use of their medical records for research.
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