About the Authors

Di Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Di Zhou, Wen-bin Guan

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai JiaoTong University, School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Wen-bin Guan

Contributed equally to this work with: Di Zhou, Wen-bin Guan

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai JiaoTong University, School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Jian-dong Wang

wangjiandongdr@yahoo.com.cn (J-dW); zhiwquan@yahoo.com.cn (Z-wQ)

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai JiaoTong University, School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Yong Zhang

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai JiaoTong University, School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Wei Gong

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai JiaoTong University, School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Zhi-wei Quan

wangjiandongdr@yahoo.com.cn (J-dW); zhiwquan@yahoo.com.cn (Z-wQ)

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai JiaoTong University, School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JDW DZ ZWQ. Performed the experiments: DZ WBG WG YZ. Analyzed the data: JDW DZ ZWQ YZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WG ZWQ. Wrote the paper: DZ ZWQ JDW.