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aDepartment of General surgery, Suzhou Ninth Hospital Affiliated to Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China bDepartment of Radiology, Suzhou Ninth Hospital Affiliated to Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China cDepartment of Clinical Research Center for Surgery, Suzhou Ninth Hospital Affiliated to Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China dDepartment of Orthopedics, Changshu No.2 People's Hospital, The Affiliated Changshu Hospital of Nantong University, Changshu, Jiangsu, China eDepartment of Orthopedics, Municipal Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China fDepartment of Radiology, Municipal Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China gDepartment of Radiology, Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China Running title: predicting all-cause mortality Xiping Shen and Jian Li: First author and Co-first author These authors contributed equally to this work. Sponsorships or competing interests that may be relevant to content are disclosed at the end of this article. *Corresponding authors. Address: Department of Clinical Research Center for Surgery and Radiology, Suzhou Ninth Hospital Affiliated to Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China, No. 2666, Ludang Road, Wujiang District, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China. Tel.: +860 512 828 812 48. E-mail: email protected (J. Wu); Department of Radiology, Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. Pudong new District, Shanghai, China. Tel.: +860 218 266 451 2. E-mail: email protected (Z. Zheng). Supplemental Digital Content is available for this article. Direct URL citations are provided in the HTML and PDF versions of this article on the journal's website, www.lww.com/international-journal-of-surgery. Published online ■ ■ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CCBY-NC-ND), where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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