Liu, Junsong
Xu, Chongwen
Wang, Rui
Han, Peng
Zhao, Qian
Li, Honghui
Bai, Yanxia
Liu, Lifeng
Zhang, Shaoqiang
Yao, Xiaobao
Funding for this research was provided by:
the Hospital Fund of the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University (2016QN-29, 2019ZYTS-13)
the Funds for Clinical Research Center for Thyroid Diseases of Shaanxi Province (2017LCZX-03)
the Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities (xjj2016106)
the Basic Natural Science Research Program of Shaanxi Province (2017JM8072, 2017JM8179)
Article History
Received: 30 December 2019
Accepted: 6 April 2020
First Online: 2 May 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of The First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China. Informed written consent was obtained from the enrolled patients.
: Informed written consent was obtained from the patients for publication of this manuscript.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.