About the Authors

Zhe Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhe Wang, Maolin He

Affiliation Division of Spine and Osteopathy Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, China

Maolin He

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhe Wang, Maolin He

Affiliation Division of Spine and Osteopathy Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, China

Zengming Xiao

zmxiao_gxmu@foxmail.com

Affiliation Division of Spine and Osteopathy Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, China

Hao Wu

Affiliation Division of Spine and Osteopathy Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, China

Yang Wu

Affiliation Division of Spine and Osteopathy Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZMX. Performed the experiments: ZW MLH. Analyzed the data: ZW MLH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HW YW. Wrote the manuscript: ZW MLH. Provided clinical advice: ZMX MLH.