About the Authors

Yifei Gu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yifei Gu, Peng Cao, Rui Gao

Affiliation Department of Spine Surgery, Changzheng Orthopedic Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Peng Cao

Contributed equally to this work with: Yifei Gu, Peng Cao, Rui Gao

Affiliation Department of Spine Surgery, Changzheng Orthopedic Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Rui Gao

Contributed equally to this work with: Yifei Gu, Peng Cao, Rui Gao

Affiliation Department of Spine Surgery, Changzheng Orthopedic Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Ye Tian

Affiliation Department of Spine Surgery, Changzheng Orthopedic Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Lei Liang

Affiliation Department of Spine Surgery, Changzheng Orthopedic Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Ce Wang

Affiliation Department of Spine Surgery, Changzheng Orthopedic Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Lili Yang

orthoyang@sina.com (LY); yuanwen_spine@126.com (WY)

Affiliation Department of Spine Surgery, Changzheng Orthopedic Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Wen Yuan

orthoyang@sina.com (LY); yuanwen_spine@126.com (WY)

Affiliation Department of Spine Surgery, Changzheng Orthopedic Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LY WY. Performed the experiments: YG RG. Analyzed the data: YG RG CW PC YT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LL. Wrote the paper: YG.