Man Wang, Wen-Jie Kong, Jing-Zhan Zhang, Jia-Jie Lu, Wen-Jia Hui, Wei-Dong Liu, Xiao-Jing Kang, Feng Gao
Man Wang, Wen-Jie Kong, Jia-Jie Lu, Wen-Jia Hui, Wei-Dong Liu, Feng Gao, Department of Gastroenterology, People’s Hospital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Urumqi 830001, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China
Jing-Zhan Zhang, Xiao-Jing Kang, Department of Dermatology, People’s Hospital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Urumqi 830001, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China
Author contributions: Wang M and Gao F designed the study; Wang M, Kong WJ and Lu JJ acquired the data and drafted the article; Hui WJ and Liu WD analyzed and interpreted the data; Zhang JZ and Kang XJ revised the article critically for important intellectual content; all the authors approved the version to be published.
Institutional review board statement: This study was reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committee of the People’s Hospital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
Informed consent statement: No consent was required as this was a retrospective study.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All authors declare no conflicts-of-interest related to this article.
Data sharing statement: The datasets collected and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author: Feng Gao, MD, PhD, Chairman, Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, People’s Hospital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, No. 91, Tianchi Road, Tianshan District, Urumqi 830001, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. drxjgf@sina.com
Received: December 29, 2019
Peer-review started: December 29, 2019
First decision: January 19, 2020
Revised: March 13, 2020
Accepted: March 24, 2020
Article in press: March 24, 2020
Published online: May 15, 2020