Ji, Lili
Wu, Qin
Gu, Jun
Deng, Xuedong
Zhou, Wei
Fan, Xing
Zhou, Feng
Funding for this research was provided by:
Suzhou Basic Reseach Application (NO.SYSD2016063)
Article History
Received: 30 October 2018
Accepted: 13 March 2019
First Online: 20 March 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Not applicable.This study was conducted with the approval of the hospital review boards of the Suzhou Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University (NO.IRB20160601) and was performed according to the ethical standards laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments. Written informed consent was obtained from all of the patients for the PLA procedure. Additional informed consent was not required for this retrospective study.
: All study participants, or their legal guardian, written consent to publish individual person’s data in the manuscript.
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