From the ∗Department of Radiology, Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education/Beijing), Peking University Cancer Hospital and Institute
†Department of Radiology, Beijing Shunyi District Hospital, Beijing
‡Department of Radiology, The Fourth Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang
Departments of §Gastrointestinal Oncology
∥Pathology, Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education/Beijing), Peking University Cancer Hospital and Institute, Beijing, China.
Received for publication March 28, 2022; accepted June 30, 2022.
Correspondence to: Yong Cui, MD (e-mail, [email protected]). Ying-Shi Sun, MD, No. 52, Fucheng Road, Hai Dian District, Beijing 100142, China (e-mail, [email protected]).
This study was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61520106004) and the Natural Science Foundation of Tibet Autonomous Region (XZ2017ZR-ZYZ01).
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
X.-L.G., Y.C., and Y.-S.S. proposed the conception and designed the study. X.-L.G., X.P., X.-X.H., Z.-W.L., M.L., and L.Y collected and assembled the data. X.-T.L. and X.-L.G. participated in the statistical analyses and H.-T.Z. participated in the data analyses. All authors participated in manuscript writing, and they all read and approved the final manuscript.
The study was approved by the institutional ethics committee of 2 hospitals.
The written informed consent was waived by 2 institutional review boards.
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