About the Authors

Honglin Dong

Contributed equally to this work with: Honglin Dong, Xiaowei Jin

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Second Hospital, Shanxi Medical University. Taiyuan, China

Xiaowei Jin

Contributed equally to this work with: Honglin Dong, Xiaowei Jin

Affiliation Department of Digestive Diseases, General Hospital of Air Forces of PLA, Beijing, China

Jie Hu

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Second Hospital, Shanxi Medical University. Taiyuan, China

Haifeng Li

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Second Hospital, Shanxi Medical University. Taiyuan, China

Xianli He

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Tangdu Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Xiaonan Liu

liuxnys@fmmu.edu.cn (XL); Guoqiang@fmmu.edu.cn (GB)

Affiliation Xijing Hospital of Digestive Disease, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Guoqiang Bao

liuxnys@fmmu.edu.cn (XL); Guoqiang@fmmu.edu.cn (GB)

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Tangdu Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HLD GQB. Performed the experiments: XWJ JH. Analyzed the data: HFL XLH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XNL. Wrote the paper: HLD GQB.