Long-term efficacy and safety of cap-assisted endoscopic sclerotherapy with long injection needle for internal hemorrhoids
Ya-Ting Xie, Yu Yuan, Hui-Min Zhou, Tao Liu, Li-Hao Wu, Xing-Xiang He
Ya-Ting Xie, Yu Yuan, Hui-Min Zhou, Tao Liu, Li-Hao Wu, Xing-Xiang He, Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou 510080, Guangdong Province, China
Author contributions: He XX, Yuan Y and Xie YT designed the concept of the study; Zhou HM, Wu LH and Liu T collected and analyzed the data; Xie YT and Yuan Y wrote the draft manuscript; all authors listed have made a substantial, direct, and intellectual contribution to the work and approved it for publication.
Institutional review board statement: The study was reviewed and approved by the the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Pharmaceutical University Institutional Review Board (No.2016-(33)-01).
Informed consent statement: All study participants or their legal guardian provided informed written consent about personal and medical data collection prior to study enrolment.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All the authors report no relevant conflicts of interest for this article.
Data sharing statement: Technical appendix, statistical code, and dataset available from the corresponding author at hexingxiang@gdpu.edu.cn. Participants gave informed consent for data sharing.
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https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Xing-Xiang He, MD, Chief Physician, Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, No. 19 Lower Nonglin Street, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou 510080, Guangdong Province, China. hexingxiang@gdpu.edu.cn
Received: June 24, 2022
Peer-review started: June 24, 2022
First decision: August 1, 2022
Revised: August 19, 2022
Accepted: September 22, 2022
Article in press: September 22, 2022
Published online: October 27, 2022