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Wei-Li Shi and Feng-Yi Hu contributed equally to this work.
Contribution of each author is justified according to ICMJE criteria for authorship. Detailed contributions are as follows: W.-L. S. (conceptualization, data collection and draft writing), F.-Y. H. (data collection, statistics analysis and draft writing), M.-T. X. (schematic drawing), Q.-Y. M. (surgical data provision and draft revision), N.-Y. C. (surgical data provision and draft revision), S. Y. (statistics analysis and draft revision), J.-N. W. (surgical data provision and draft revision), Y.-F. A. (supervision and draft revision), P. L. (conceptualization, surgical data provision and draft revision).
This work was approved by the ethics committee of Peking University Third Hospital (Project Number: M2021404).
This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 81902208); Beijing Natural Science Foundation (grant No. 7172234) and Beijing Nova Program (Grant No. Z201100006820011) from Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission. The authors thank Chu Hongling and Zeng Lin for their assistance in statistics in this study.