About the Authors

Hailong Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Hailong Hu, Dawei Tian

wucl2003@163.com (CW), forwardgen@126.com (HH)

Affiliation Department of Urology, Tianjin Institute of Urology, Second Hospital of Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China

Dawei Tian

Contributed equally to this work with: Hailong Hu, Dawei Tian

Affiliation Department of Urology, Tianjin Institute of Urology, Second Hospital of Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China

Tao Chen

Affiliation Department of Urology, Tianjin Institute of Urology, Second Hospital of Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China

Ruifa Han

Affiliation Department of Urology, Tianjin Institute of Urology, Second Hospital of Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China

Yan Sun

Affiliation Department of Urology, Tianjin Institute of Urology, Second Hospital of Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China

Changli Wu

wucl2003@163.com (CW), forwardgen@126.com (HH)

Affiliation Department of Urology, Tianjin Institute of Urology, Second Hospital of Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HH CW. Performed the experiments: HH DT TC RH YS CW. Analyzed the data: HH DT TC RH YS CW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HH DT TC RH YS CW. Wrote the paper: HH CW.