About the Authors

Yong Ma

njmayong@163.com

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China

Jianmin Bian

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China

Hongyong Cao

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YM JB HC. Performed the experiments: YM JB. Analyzed the data: YM JB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YM JB HC. Wrote the paper: YM.