About the Authors

Yan Zhang

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, No. 1838 Guangzhou Avenue North, Guangzhou, 510515, Guangdong, China

Jiang Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiang Yu, Guoxin Li

balbc@163.com (JY); gzliguoxin@163.com (GL)

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, No. 1838 Guangzhou Avenue North, Guangzhou, 510515, Guangdong, China

Hao Liu

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, No. 1838 Guangzhou Avenue North, Guangzhou, 510515, Guangdong, China

Wenhui Ma

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, No. 1838 Guangzhou Avenue North, Guangzhou, 510515, Guangdong, China

Li Yan

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, No. 1838 Guangzhou Avenue North, Guangzhou, 510515, Guangdong, China

Jiefu Wang

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, No. 1838 Guangzhou Avenue North, Guangzhou, 510515, Guangdong, China

Guoxin Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiang Yu, Guoxin Li

balbc@163.com (JY); gzliguoxin@163.com (GL)

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, No. 1838 Guangzhou Avenue North, Guangzhou, 510515, Guangdong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GL JY. Performed the experiments: YZ WM. Analyzed the data: YZ HL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LY JW. Wrote the paper: YZ JY.