About the Authors

Guoqing Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Guoqing Chen, Yuan Qiu

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Xinqiao Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Yuan Qiu

Contributed equally to this work with: Guoqing Chen, Yuan Qiu

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Xinqiao Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Lihua Sun

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Xinqiao Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Min Yu

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Xinqiao Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Wensheng Wang

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Xinqiao Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Weidong Xiao

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Xinqiao Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Yang Yang

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Xinqiao Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Yong Liu

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Xinqiao Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Songwei Yang

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Xinqiao Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Daniel H. Teitelbaum

Affiliation Department of Surgery, the University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Yuanhang Ma

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Xinqiao Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Dingsong Lu

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Xinqiao Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Hua Yang

huayang@tmmu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Xinqiao Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GQC YQ HY. Performed the experiments: GQC YQ LHS MY WSW WDX YY YL SWY YHM DSL. Analyzed the data: GQC HY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DHT. Wrote the paper: HY.