About the Authors

Lu Zheng

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Xinqiao Hospital, the Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Ping Liang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ping Liang, Jing Li

xqyylp@hotmail.com (PL); xqyylj@hotmail.com (JL)

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Xinqiao Hospital, the Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Jing Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Ping Liang, Jing Li

xqyylp@hotmail.com (PL); xqyylj@hotmail.com (JL)

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Xinqiao Hospital, the Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Xiao-bing Huang

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Xinqiao Hospital, the Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Shi-cheng Liu

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Xinqiao Hospital, the Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Hong-zhi Zhao

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Xinqiao Hospital, the Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Ke-qiang Han

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Xinqiao Hospital, the Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Zheng Wang

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Xinqiao Hospital, the Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LZ PL JL. Performed the experiments: LZ X-BH S-CL. Analyzed the data: PL JL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: H-ZZ K-QH ZW. Wrote the paper: PL JL.