Kent Yu-Hsien Lin: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Writing – original draft
Chih-Yi Yang:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0002-3208
Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: MethodologyRole: Writing – original
draft
Alan Lam: Role: Data curationRole: Supervision
Cherry Yin-Yi Chang: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: Writing – review
& editing
Wu-Chou Lin: Role: ConceptualizationRole: InvestigationRole: Writing – review & editing
Antonio Simone Laganà: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS One
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
26
August
2021
Publication date Collection: 2021
Volume: 16
Issue: 8
Electronic Location Identifier: e0256772
Affiliations
[1
]
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Women and Children’s Health, Royal North
Shore Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia
[2
]
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital, Sydney, NSW,
Australia
[3
]
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Ryde Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia
[4
]
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung,
Taiwan
[5
]
Department of Public Health, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
[6
]
Centre for Advanced Reproductive Endosurgery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
[7
]
School of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
University of Insubria, ITALY
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.
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Article
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PONE-D-21-09322
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0256772
PMC ID: 8389431
PubMed ID: 34437644
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