1 Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200082, China.
2 Institute of Otology, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200052, China.
3 Shanghai Key Laboratory of Ear and Nose Disease Transformation, Shanghai 200092, China.
4 Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Zhongda Hospital, Southeast University, Nanjing 210009, China.
5 Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck, Audiology and Neurotology, Karolinska University Hospital, 171 76 Stockholm, Sweden.
6 Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Division of Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases, Karolinska Institute, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden.
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