About the Authors

Chen Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Chen Liu, Qianping Guo

Affiliations Department of Orthopaedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, Orthopedic Institute, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Qianping Guo

Contributed equally to this work with: Chen Liu, Qianping Guo

Affiliations Department of Orthopaedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, Orthopedic Institute, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Jun Li

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Shenghao Wang

Affiliation Orthopedic Institute, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Yibin Wang

Affiliation Orthopedic Institute, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Bin Li

binli@suda.edu.cn (BL); suzhouspine@163.com (HY)

Affiliations Department of Orthopaedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, Orthopedic Institute, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Huilin Yang

binli@suda.edu.cn (BL); suzhouspine@163.com (HY)

Affiliations Department of Orthopaedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, Orthopedic Institute, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BL HY. Performed the experiments: QG JL CL SW YW. Analyzed the data: QG JL CL BL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QG JL BL. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: QG JL BL.