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"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThis study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Hospital of Wuhan, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. All patients provided signed informed consent forms. Consent for publicationPatients signed an informed consent regarding publishing their data and photographs. Competing interestsNeither the entire paper nor any part of its contents has been submitted to any other journal. All authors have read and approved this submission. The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. Competing interests Neither the entire paper nor any part of its contents has been submitted to any other journal. All authors have read and approved this submission. The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest."

"Funding This study was supported by the Funding for Scientific Research Projects from Wuhan Municipal Health Commission (grant numbers: WX21M02, WZ21C04, WZ21C18)."