From the *Auricular Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Center, Plastic Surgery Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College; and
†Chinese Academy of Sciences and Key Laboratory of Genome Science and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Received April 13, 2018, and accepted for publication, after revision August 2, 2018.
Author's Role/Participation: W.X., Y.W., J.Q., B.W., and Q.Z. participated in the clinical application of the technique. W.X. participated in the follow-up of the patients and analysis of data for the work. All authors participated in the conception and design of the study. W.X. drafted the article. Y.W., J.Q., B.W., X.Z., T.L., Y.Z., and Q.Z. revised it critically for important intellectual content. All the authors approved the version to be submitted.
Conflicts of interest and sources of funding: The article was sponsored by National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 81571924, 31671312). The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.
Reprints: Qingguo Zhang, MD, Auricular Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Center, Plastic Surgery Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, 33 Badachu Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing, People's Republic of China. E-mail: [email protected].
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