About the Authors

Sheng-xin Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Sheng-xin Huang, Fei-xiang Wu

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Affiliated Tumor Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, People's Republic of China

Fei-xiang Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Sheng-xin Huang, Fei-xiang Wu

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Affiliated Tumor Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, People's Republic of China

Min Luo

Affiliation Department of Experiment, Affiliated Tumor Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, People's Republic of China

Liang Ma

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Affiliated Tumor Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, People's Republic of China

Ke-feng Gao

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Affiliated Tumor Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, People's Republic of China

Jian Li

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Affiliated Tumor Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, People's Republic of China

Wen-juan Wu

Affiliation Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Affiliated Tumor Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, People's Republic of China

Shan Huang

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Affiliated Tumor Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, People's Republic of China

Qi Yang

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Affiliated Tumor Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, People's Republic of China

Ke Liu

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Affiliated Tumor Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, People's Republic of China

Yin-nong Zhao

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Affiliated Tumor Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, People's Republic of China

Le-qun Li

wufxiang@yahoo.com.cn

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Affiliated Tumor Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SXH FXW. Performed the experiments: SXH ML JL YNZ. Analyzed the data: SH KFG JL WJW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LM WJW QY KL. Wrote the paper: SH FXW LL.