About the Authors

Yaping Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yaping Xu, Yue Deng

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology head and neck surgery, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Yue Deng

Contributed equally to this work with: Yaping Xu, Yue Deng

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology head and neck surgery, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Zhenhua Ji

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology head and neck surgery, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Haibin Liu

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology head and neck surgery, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Yueyang Liu

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology head and neck surgery, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Hu Peng

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology head and neck surgery, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Jian Wu

jianwu2008@126.com (JW); fanjingp@163.com (JF)

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology head and neck surgery, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Jingping Fan

jianwu2008@126.com (JW); fanjingp@163.com (JF)

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology head and neck surgery, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JF. Performed the experiments: JW. Analyzed the data: YD ZJ HL YL HP. Wrote the paper: YX YD JW.