About the Authors

Zhuo-Xin Cheng

Affiliation Department of Pancreatic and Biliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, People's Republic of China

Bei Sun

sunbei70@tom.com

Affiliation Department of Pancreatic and Biliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, People's Republic of China

Shuang-Jia Wang

Affiliation Department of Pancreatic and Biliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, People's Republic of China

Yue Gao

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University Hospitals, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Ying-Mei Zhang

Affiliation Central Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, People's Republic of China

Hao-Xin Zhou

Affiliation Department of Pancreatic and Biliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, People's Republic of China

Guang Jia

Affiliation Department of Pancreatic and Biliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, People's Republic of China

Yong-Wei Wang

Affiliation Department of Pancreatic and Biliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, People's Republic of China

Rui Kong

Affiliation Department of Pancreatic and Biliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, People's Republic of China

Shang-Ha Pan

Affiliation Department of Pancreatic and Biliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, People's Republic of China

Dong-Bo Xue

Affiliation Department of Pancreatic and Biliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, People's Republic of China

Hong-Chi Jiang

Affiliation Department of Pancreatic and Biliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, People's Republic of China

Xue-Wei Bai

Affiliation Department of Pancreatic and Biliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BS YG. Performed the experiments: Z-XC S-JW GJ. Analyzed the data: Z-XC Y-WW H-XZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: S-HP RK H-CJ D-BX X-WB. Wrote the paper: Z-XC Y-MZ.