About the Authors

Xiaoxiang Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoxiang Li, Kui Xu, Wei Li

Affiliation Orthopedics Oncology Institute of Chinese PLA, Tangdu Hospital, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shannxi, China

Kui Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoxiang Li, Kui Xu, Wei Li

Affiliation Orthopedics Oncology Institute of Chinese PLA, Tangdu Hospital, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shannxi, China

Wei Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoxiang Li, Kui Xu, Wei Li

Affiliation Orthopedics Oncology Institute of Chinese PLA, Tangdu Hospital, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shannxi, China

Xiuchun Qiu

Affiliation Orthopedics Oncology Institute of Chinese PLA, Tangdu Hospital, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shannxi, China

Baoan Ma

Affiliation Orthopedics Oncology Institute of Chinese PLA, Tangdu Hospital, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shannxi, China

Qingyu Fan

leelieber@gmail.com (ZL); bonetm@fmmu.edu.cn (QF)

Affiliation Orthopedics Oncology Institute of Chinese PLA, Tangdu Hospital, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shannxi, China

Zhao Li

leelieber@gmail.com (ZL); bonetm@fmmu.edu.cn (QF)

Affiliation Orthopedics Oncology Institute of Chinese PLA, Tangdu Hospital, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shannxi, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZL. Performed the experiments: XL KX WL ZL. Analyzed the data: XL KX WL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BM XQ QF ZL. Wrote the paper: XL ZL.