About the Authors

You Luo

Contributed equally to this work with: You Luo, Dong-Li She, Hu Xiong

Affiliation Gansu Nephro-Urological Clinical Center, Institute of Urology, Department of Urology, Key Laboratory of Urological Disease of Gansu Province, Lanzhou University Second Hospital, Lanzhou 730000, China

Dong-Li She

Contributed equally to this work with: You Luo, Dong-Li She, Hu Xiong

Affiliation Gansu Nephro-Urological Clinical Center, Institute of Urology, Department of Urology, Key Laboratory of Urological Disease of Gansu Province, Lanzhou University Second Hospital, Lanzhou 730000, China

Hu Xiong

Contributed equally to this work with: You Luo, Dong-Li She, Hu Xiong

Affiliation Gansu Nephro-Urological Clinical Center, Institute of Urology, Department of Urology, Key Laboratory of Urological Disease of Gansu Province, Lanzhou University Second Hospital, Lanzhou 730000, China

Li Yang

Affiliation Gansu Nephro-Urological Clinical Center, Institute of Urology, Department of Urology, Key Laboratory of Urological Disease of Gansu Province, Lanzhou University Second Hospital, Lanzhou 730000, China

Sheng-Jun Fu

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Affiliation Gansu Nephro-Urological Clinical Center, Institute of Urology, Department of Urology, Key Laboratory of Urological Disease of Gansu Province, Lanzhou University Second Hospital, Lanzhou 730000, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YL SJF. Performed the experiments: YL DLS HX SJF. Analyzed the data: YL DLS HX SJF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YL. Wrote the paper: YL SJF LY. Literature search and quality assessment: YL DLS. Data analysis: YL DLS HX SJF.