aDepartment of Neurosurgery, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan

bHubei Provincial Clinical Research Center for Umbilical Cord Blood Hematopoietic Stem Cells

cDepartment of Neurosurgery, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan, China

dWuhan, Hubei Province, China, First School of Clinical Medicine of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Received 29 November 2023 Accepted 18 January 2024.

*Hongxiang Jiang and Juntao Hu contributed equally to this work.

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Correspondence to Fei Li, MD, Department of Neurosurgery, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, 238 Jiefang Road, Wuchang District, Wuhan 430060, Hubei Province, China Tel: +86 1898 639 6700; fax: +027 6877 2100; e-mail: [email protected]