About the Authors

Aiwen Feng

Contributed equally to this work with: Aiwen Feng, Guangrong Zhou

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Huai'an First People’s Hospital, Nanjing Medical, University, Huai'an, P. R. China

Guangrong Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Aiwen Feng, Guangrong Zhou

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Huai'an First People’s Hospital, Nanjing Medical, University, Huai'an, P. R. China

Xiaoming Yuan

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Huai'an First People’s Hospital, Nanjing Medical, University, Huai'an, P. R. China

Xinli Huang

fengheyan-2000@163.com

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, P. R. China

Zhengyuan Zhang

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Huai'an First People’s Hospital, Nanjing Medical, University, Huai'an, P. R. China

Ti Zhang

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Huai'an First People’s Hospital, Nanjing Medical, University, Huai'an, P. R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XH. Performed the experiments: AF GZ ZZ. Analyzed the data: AF XY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XH TZ. Wrote the paper: AF XH.