About the Authors

Yu Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu Chen, Lili Yang

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

Lili Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu Chen, Lili Yang

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

Yang Liu

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

Haisong Yang

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

Xinwei Wang

wxwspine@126.com (XW) (XW); surgchenyu@163.com (DC) (DC)

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

Deyu Chen

wxwspine@126.com (XW) (XW); surgchenyu@163.com (DC) (DC)

Affiliation Department of Spine Surgery, Changzheng 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: YC DC. Performed the experiments: YC LY XW DC. Analyzed the data: YL HY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LY YL HY. Wrote the paper: YC LY.