Li F, Ma K, Sun MH, Shi S. American Journal of Translational Research. 2018;10:1373-1386.
In this article, we stated that “Written informed consent was obtained from all patients according to the guidelines approved by the Ethics Committee”. Actually, our research protocols were not ethically vetted and we did not get any written informed consent about this study from the patients. Besides, Dr. Ma and Dr. Sun did not know they were listed in this paper, and they had not consented to be listed in this paper. So, due to the ethical problem and the dispute over authorship between the authors, we decide to retract the manuscript.