About the Authors

Lin Zhang

thezhanglin@hotmail.com

Affiliation Department of Urology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, People’s Republic of China

Xing-Huan Wang

Affiliation Department of Urology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, People’s Republic of China

Xin-Min Zheng

Affiliation Department of Urology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, People’s Republic of China

Tong-Zu Liu

Affiliation Department of Urology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, People’s Republic of China

Wei-Bin Zhang

Affiliation Department of Urology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, People’s Republic of China

Hang Zheng

Affiliation Department of Urology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, People’s Republic of China

Mi-Feng Chen

Affiliation Department of Obstetrical, Jingmen No. 2 People’s Hospital, Jingmen Hubei, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LZ XMZ. Performed the experiments: LZ XHW XMZ. Analyzed the data: TZL HZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MFC WBZ. Wrote the paper: LZ XHW XMZ TZL. Processing of figures: HZ MFC.