About the Authors

Xu-Feng Zhang

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China

Tao Wei

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China

Xue-Min Liu

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China

Chang Liu

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China

Yi Lv

luyi169@126.com

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XFZ YL. Performed the experiments: TW XML CL. Analyzed the data: TW XFZ YL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TW XML CL. Wrote the paper: TW XFZ.