About the Authors

Zhi-Jie Cong

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhi-Jie Cong, Liang-Hao Hu, Zheng-Qian Bian

Affiliations Department of Colorectal Surgery, Ren Ji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, Digestive Endoscopy Center, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Liang-Hao Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhi-Jie Cong, Liang-Hao Hu, Zheng-Qian Bian

Affiliation Digestive Endoscopy Center, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Zheng-Qian Bian

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhi-Jie Cong, Liang-Hao Hu, Zheng-Qian Bian

Affiliation Department of Colorectal Surgery, Ren Ji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Guang-Yao Ye

Affiliation Department of Colorectal Surgery, Ren Ji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Min-Hao Yu

Affiliation Department of Colorectal Surgery, Ren Ji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Yun-He Gao

Affiliation Department of Colorectal Surgery, Ren Ji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Zhao-Shen Li

Affiliation Digestive Endoscopy Center, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

En-Da Yu

drzhongm@126.com (MZ); dryuenda@gmail.com (EY)

Affiliation Digestive Endoscopy Center, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Ming Zhong

drzhongm@126.com (MZ); dryuenda@gmail.com (EY)

Affiliation Department of Colorectal Surgery, Ren Ji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MZ EY. Performed the experiments: ZC GY. Analyzed the data: LH MY ZL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZB YG. Wrote the manuscript: ZC ZB.