About the Authors

Xiaoping Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoping Liu, Da Wang

These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliations Department of General Surgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China, Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, The first affiliated hospital of Gannan medical university, Gannan medical university, Ganzhou, Jiangxi, P.R. China

Da Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoping Liu, Da Wang

These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China

Liansheng Zheng

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China

Tingyu Mou

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China

Hao Liu

liuhaofbi@163.com (HL); gzliguoxin@163.com (GXL)

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China

Guoxin Li

liuhaofbi@163.com (HL); gzliguoxin@163.com (GXL)

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XPL DW GXL. Performed the experiments: XPL DW LSZ TYM. Analyzed the data: HL DW XPL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DW XPL LSZ TYM. Wrote the paper: DW XPL.