About the Authors

Yongyi Yuan

Contributed equally to this work with: Yongyi Yuan, Xun Zhang

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, PLA General Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China, Department of Otolaryngology, Hainan Branch of PLA General Hospital, Sanya, People's Republic of China

Xun Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yongyi Yuan, Xun Zhang

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, 3rd hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, People's Republic of China

Shasha Huang

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, PLA General Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Lujie Zuo

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, PLA General Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China, Department of Otolaryngology, 3rd hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, People's Republic of China

Guozheng Zhang

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, PLA General Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China, Department of Otolaryngology, 3rd hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, People's Republic of China

Yueshuai Song

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, PLA General Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Guojian Wang

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, PLA General Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China, Department of Otolaryngology, Hainan Branch of PLA General Hospital, Sanya, People's Republic of China

Hongtian Wang

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, PLA General Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Deliang Huang

daipu301@vip.sina.com (PD); hdy301@263.net (D. Han); huangdl301@sina.com (D. Huang)

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, PLA General Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Dongyi Han

daipu301@vip.sina.com (PD); hdy301@263.net (D. Han); huangdl301@sina.com (D. Huang)

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, PLA General Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Pu Dai

daipu301@vip.sina.com (PD); hdy301@263.net (D. Han); huangdl301@sina.com (D. Huang)

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, PLA General Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China, Department of Otolaryngology, Hainan Branch of PLA General Hospital, Sanya, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PD D. Huang D. Han. Performed the experiments: SH LZ GZ GW YS. Analyzed the data: YY XZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HW. Wrote the paper: YY.