About the Authors

Jian-Hong Zhong

Contributed equally to this work with: Jian-Hong Zhong, Bang-De Xiang

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

Bang-De Xiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jian-Hong Zhong, Bang-De Xiang

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

Liang Ma

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

Xue-Mei You

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

Le-Qun Li

xitongpingjia@163.com

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

Gui-Sheng Xie

Affiliation General Surgery Department, The Third Affiliated 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: JHZ LL. Performed the experiments: BDX GSX. Analyzed the data: LM XMY. Wrote the paper: JHZ BDX.