*Department of Anorectal Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), Qinhuai District, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province
†Department of Anorectal Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University
‡Department of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Colorectal and Pelvic Floor Diseases, The Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, P.R. China
This study was funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.81704082).
L.X. and H.C. are co-first authors in this study.
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
Reprints: Yunfei Gu, MD, Department of Anorectal Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), No. 155 Hanzhong Road, Qinhuai District, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, 210029, P.R. China. (e-mail: guyunfei127@126.com).
