Tong, Yongqing
Zhao, Zhijun
Liu, Bei
Bao, Anyu
Zheng, Hongyun
Gu, Jian
McGrath, Mary
Xia, Ying
Tan, Bihua
Song, Chunhua
Li, Yan
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81502087)
Article History
Received: 9 February 2018
Accepted: 15 March 2018
First Online: 27 March 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All the patients provided their written informed consent in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki before enrollment in the study. The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
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