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aYantai Yuhuangding Hospital, Shandong University, Shandong Province, China bDepartment of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital affiliated to Qingdao University, Shandong Province, China cGeneral surgery, Yantai Yeda hospital, Shandong Province, China Zengwu Yao, Jinchen Hu contributed equally to this work and should be considered co-first authors. Sponsorships or competing interests that may be relevant to content are disclosed at the end of this article. Published online ■ ■ *Corresponding author. Address: Qindao University Medical College Affiliated Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital China. TEL: +86-0535-6691999-83730. E-mail address: [email protected] (L. Jiang). This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work, even for commercial purposes, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/