About the Authors

Yan Shi

Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Shi, Bin Tang

Affiliation Department of General Surgery and Center of Minimal Invasive Gastrointestinal Surgery, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Bin Tang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Shi, Bin Tang

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medical Laboratory Science, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Pei-Wu Yu

zdz1140@yahoo.com.cn (DZZ); yupeiwu01@vip.sina.com (PWY)

Affiliation Department of General Surgery and Center of Minimal Invasive Gastrointestinal Surgery, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Bo Tang

Affiliation Department of General Surgery and Center of Minimal Invasive Gastrointestinal Surgery, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Ying-Xue Hao

Affiliation Department of General Surgery and Center of Minimal Invasive Gastrointestinal Surgery, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Xiao Lei

Affiliation Department of General Surgery and Center of Minimal Invasive Gastrointestinal Surgery, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Hua-Xing Luo

Affiliation Department of General Surgery and Center of Minimal Invasive Gastrointestinal Surgery, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Dong-Zhu Zeng

zdz1140@yahoo.com.cn (DZZ); yupeiwu01@vip.sina.com (PWY)

Affiliation Department of General Surgery and Center of Minimal Invasive Gastrointestinal Surgery, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DZZ PWY YS Bin Tang. Performed the experiments: YS Bo Tang YXH XL HXL. Analyzed the data: DZZ YS. Wrote the paper: DZZ YS.