Assessment of load-sharing thoracolumbar injury: A modified scoring system
Qi-Hang Su, Biao Cheng, Department of Orthopedics, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200072, China
Qi-Hang Su, Yong-Chao Li, Yan Zhang, Jun Tan, Department of Orthopedics, Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200120, China
Author contributions: Su QH and Li YC contributed equally to this work; Su QH and Cheng B designed research; Su QH, Zhang Y, Li YC, and Tan J performed the research; Su QH and Li YC contributed new analytic tools; Su QH, Li YC, and Cheng B analyzed data; Su QH wrote the paper.
Supported by Multicenter Clinical Trial of hUC-MSCs in the Treatment of Late Chronic Spinal Cord Injury, No. 2017YFA0105404; and the Project of Shanghai Science and Technology Commission, No. 19441901702.
Institutional review board statement: Shanghai East Hospital (East Hospital Affiliated to Tongji University) Medical Ethics Committee approved the study protocol, which met the relevant guidelines and regulations of Shanghai Medical Ethics Committee.
Informed consent statement: All included volunteers had signed an informed consent form.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors declare that they have no financial or other conflicts of interest in relation to this research and its publication.
Data sharing statement: Technical appendix, statistical code, and dataset available from the corresponding author at [
15221378017@163.com]. Participants gave informed consent for data sharing.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See:
http://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Biao Cheng, MD, PhD, Doctor, Professor, Surgeon Department of Orthopedics, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, No. 301 Yanchang Middle Road, Shanghai 200072, China.
dr_chengbiao@163.com
Received: May 12, 2020
Peer-review started: May 12, 2020
First decision: September 14, 2020
Revised: September 14, 2020
Accepted: September 23, 2020
Article in press: September 23, 2020
Published online: November 6, 2020
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