From the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Xijing Hospital, Forth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
Received September 14, 2021, and accepted for publication, after revision November 17, 2021.
D.-Y.H. and Z.-Q.C. contribute equally to this research and are listed as first authors. P.P., C.-H.L., and J.C. are co-corresponding authors.
Conflicts of interest and sources of funding: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
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Ethical approval: All procedures performed in the studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the Institutional and/or National Research Committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. For this type of study, formal consent is not required.
Reprints: Pai Peng, MD, PhD, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Xijing Hospital, Forth Military Medical University, No. 127 Changle West Rd, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710032, China. E-mail: [email protected]; Chao-Hua Liu, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Xijing Hospital, Forth Military Medical University, No. 127 Changle West Rd, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710032, China. E-mail: [email protected]; Jiao Cao, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Xijing Hospital, Forth Military Medical University, No. 127 Changle West Rd, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710032, China. E-mail: [email protected].
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