About the Authors

Tao Shan

shantao820304@163.com

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Second Affiliated Hospital of Medical College, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Hongwei Lu

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Second Affiliated Hospital of Medical College, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Hong Ji

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Second Affiliated Hospital of Medical College, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Yiming Li

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Second Affiliated Hospital of Medical College, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Jian Guo

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

Xi Chen

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Second Affiliated Hospital of Medical College, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Tao Wu

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Second Affiliated Hospital of Medical College, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TS HJ YL. Performed the experiments: TS JG. Analyzed the data: HL YL HJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YL XC TW HL. Wrote the paper: TS. Revised the paper: XC TW.