About the Authors

Yi Gong

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi Gong, Leida Zhang

Affiliation Institute of Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing City, P. R. China

Leida Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi Gong, Leida Zhang

Affiliation Institute of Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing City, P. R. China

Ping Bie

bieping@medmail.com.cn (PB); whuaizhi@gmail.com (HW)

Affiliation Institute of Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing City, P. R. China

Huaizhi Wang

bieping@medmail.com.cn (PB); whuaizhi@gmail.com (HW)

Affiliation Institute of Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing City, P. R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YG LDZ PB HZW. Performed the experiments: YG LDZ PB. Analyzed the data: YG LDZ. Wrote the paper: YG LDZ PB HZW.