About the Authors

Daorong Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Daorong Wang, Chaowu Chen

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Subei People’s Hospital of Jiangsu Province (Clinical Medical College of Yangzhou University), Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, People’s Republic of China

Chaowu Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Daorong Wang, Chaowu Chen

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Subei People’s Hospital of Jiangsu Province (Clinical Medical College of Yangzhou University), Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, People’s Republic of China

Jie Chen

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Subei People’s Hospital of Jiangsu Province (Clinical Medical College of Yangzhou University), Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, People’s Republic of China

Yaxiang Xu

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Subei People’s Hospital of Jiangsu Province (Clinical Medical College of Yangzhou University), Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, People’s Republic of China

Lu Wang

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Subei People’s Hospital of Jiangsu Province (Clinical Medical College of Yangzhou University), Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, People’s Republic of China

Zhen Zhu

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Subei People’s Hospital of Jiangsu Province (Clinical Medical College of Yangzhou University), Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, People’s Republic of China

Denghao Deng

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Subei People’s Hospital of Jiangsu Province (Clinical Medical College of Yangzhou University), Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, People’s Republic of China

Juan Chen

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Subei People’s Hospital of Jiangsu Province (Clinical Medical College of Yangzhou University), Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, People’s Republic of China

Aihua Long

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Subei People’s Hospital of Jiangsu Province (Clinical Medical College of Yangzhou University), Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, People’s Republic of China

Dong Tang

tangdong1981@hotmail.com (DT); 83392785@qq.com (JL)

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Subei People’s Hospital of Jiangsu Province (Clinical Medical College of Yangzhou University), Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, People’s Republic of China

Jun Liu

tangdong1981@hotmail.com (DT); 83392785@qq.com (JL)

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Subei People’s Hospital of Jiangsu Province (Clinical Medical College of Yangzhou University), Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DT DW JL. Performed the experiments: LW Jie Chen YX. Analyzed the data: ZZ DD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CC Juan Chen. Wrote the paper: DT AL.