About the Authors

Yadong Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yadong Zhang, Tao Zheng, Xiang'an Tu

zydyd@163.com (YZ); dch0313@163.com (CD)

Affiliation Department of Urology, 1st Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510080, Guangdong Province, China

Tao Zheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Yadong Zhang, Tao Zheng, Xiang'an Tu

Affiliation Department of Urology, 1st Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510080, Guangdong Province, China

Xiang'an Tu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yadong Zhang, Tao Zheng, Xiang'an Tu

Affiliation Department of Urology, 1st Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510080, Guangdong Province, China

Xin Chen

Affiliation Department of Urology, 1st Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510080, Guangdong Province, China

Zhu Wang

Affiliation Department of Ultrasound Medicine, Endocrinology, 1st Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510080, Guangdong Province, China

Shengfu Chen

Affiliation Department of Urology, 1st Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510080, Guangdong Province, China

Qiyun Yang

Affiliation Department of Urology, 1st Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510080, Guangdong Province, China

Zi Wan

Affiliation Department of Urology, 1st Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510080, Guangdong Province, China

Dayu Han

Affiliation Department of Urology, 1st Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510080, Guangdong Province, China

Haipeng Xiao

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, 1st Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510080, Guangdong Province, China

Xiangzhou Sun

Affiliation Department of Urology, 1st Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510080, Guangdong Province, China

Chunhua Deng

zydyd@163.com (YZ); dch0313@163.com (CD)

Affiliation Department of Urology, 1st Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510080, Guangdong Province, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YZ CD. Performed the experiments: YZ CD. Analyzed the data: TZ XT XC XS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XC Z. Wang SC QY Z. Wan DH HX. Wrote the paper: YZ.