About the Authors

Qi Hou

Contributed equally to this work with: Qi Hou, Jinyan Lin

Affiliation Department of Urology, Longgang District Central Hospital, Shenzhen, China

Jinyan Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Qi Hou, Jinyan Lin

Affiliation Health management center, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Wentao Huang

Affiliation Department of Urology, Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Maoyin Li

Affiliation Department of Urology, Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Jianhua Feng

feng-jianhua@hotmail.com (JF); 13691903635@126.com (XM)

Affiliation Department of Urology, Longgang District Central Hospital, Shenzhen, China

Xiangming Mao

feng-jianhua@hotmail.com (JF); 13691903635@126.com (XM)

Affiliation Department of Urology, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QH. Performed the experiments: QH JL. Analyzed the data: QH JL WH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QH JF XM. Wrote the paper: QH JL ML.