About the Authors

Jie Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jie Liu, Bai Ruan, Nan You, Qike Huang

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China

Bai Ruan

Contributed equally to this work with: Jie Liu, Bai Ruan, Nan You, Qike Huang

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China

Nan You

Contributed equally to this work with: Jie Liu, Bai Ruan, Nan You, Qike Huang

Affiliations Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China, Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Xinqiao Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China

Qike Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jie Liu, Bai Ruan, Nan You, Qike Huang

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China

Weihui Liu

Affiliations Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China, PLA Center of General Surgery, General Hospital of Chengdu Army Region, Chengdu, People’s Republic of China

Zheng Dang

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China

Weihua Xu

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China

Ti Zhou

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China

Ru Ji

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China

Yang Cao

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China

Xia Li

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China

Desheng Wang

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China

Kaishan Tao

gdwkgwx@fmmu.edu.cn (KD): kaistao@163.com (KT)

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China

Kefeng Dou

gdwkgwx@fmmu.edu.cn (KD): kaistao@163.com (KT)

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WL KT KD. Performed the experiments: JL BR. Analyzed the data: QH ZD WX TZ YC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RJ XL DW. Wrote the paper: JL NY.