About the Authors

Wei Han

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Han, Fang Cao

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Kunshan First People's Hospital Affiliated to Jiangsu University, Kunshan Jiangsu, 215300, P. R. China

Fang Cao

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Han, Fang Cao

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Kunshan First People's Hospital Affiliated to Jiangsu University, Kunshan Jiangsu, 215300, P. R. China

Min-bin Chen

Affiliation Department of Radiotherapy and Oncology, Kunshan First People's Hospital Affiliated to Jiangsu University, Kunshan Jiangsu, 215300, P. R. China

Rong-zhu Lu

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang Jiangsu, 212001, P. R. China

Hua-bing Wang

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Kunshan First People's Hospital Affiliated to Jiangsu University, Kunshan Jiangsu, 215300, P. R. China

Min Yu

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Kunshan First People's Hospital Affiliated to Jiangsu University, Kunshan Jiangsu, 215300, P. R. China

Chun-tao Shi

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Kunshan First People's Hospital Affiliated to Jiangsu University, Kunshan Jiangsu, 215300, P. R. China

Hou-zhong Ding

dinghouzhong@163.com

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Kunshan First People's Hospital Affiliated to Jiangsu University, Kunshan Jiangsu, 215300, P. R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HZD WH. Performed the experiments: WH FC MBC. Analyzed the data: WH FC MBC RZL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HBW MY CTS. Wrote the paper: WH.