Shan-Ping Ye, Wei-Quan Zhu, Dong-Ning Liu, Xiong Lei, Qun-Guang Jiang, Hui-Min Hu, Bo Tang, Peng-Hui He, Geng-Mei Gao, He-Chun Tang, Jun Shi, Tai-Yuan Li
Shan-Ping Ye, Wei-Quan Zhu, Dong-Ning Liu, Xiong Lei, Qun-Guang Jiang, Bo Tang, Peng-Hui He, Geng-Mei Gao, He-Chun Tang, Jun Shi, Tai-Yuan Li, Department of General Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi Province, China
Shan-Ping Ye, Wei-Quan Zhu, Hui-Min Hu, Bo Tang, Geng-Mei Gao, He-Chun Tang, Department of Graduate Student, Jiangxi Medical College of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi Province, China
Author contributions: Ye SP and Li TY designed the research; Ye SP, Zhu WQ, He PH, Gao GM, Tang HC, and Hu HM collected data and conducted the analysis of pooled data; Ye SP, Lei X and Liu DN helped to draft the manuscript; Ye SP, Jiang QG and Tang B wrote the manuscript; Ye SP and Shi J proofread and revised the manuscript; all authors have approved the version to be published.
Supported by the Infrastructure Supporting Project of Jiangxi Scientific Research Institute, No. 20142BBA13039.
Institutional review board statement: The current study was approved by the institutional review board of our hospital (2016-050) and complies with the Helsinki Declaration.
Informed consent statement: Patients were not required to give informed consent to the study because the analysis used anonymous data that were obtained after each patient agreed to treatment by written consent.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors deny any conflict of interest.
Data sharing statement: Access to the database can be obtained from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
STROBE statement: The authors have read the STROBE Statement-checklist of items, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the STROBE Statement-checklist of items.
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Corresponding author: Tai-Yuan Li, MD, PhD, Chief Doctor, Director, Professor, Department of General Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, No. 17 Yongwaizheng Street, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi Province, China. litaiyuanyfy@sina.com
Received: December 11, 2019
Peer-review started: December 11, 2019
First decision: December 26, 2019
Revised: December 28, 2019
Accepted: March 22, 2020
Article in press: March 22, 2020
Published online: April 15, 2020
