About the Authors

Da Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Da Wang, Tingting Li

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

Tingting Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Da Wang, Tingting Li

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

Gengtai Ye

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

Zhiyong Shen

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

Yanfeng Hu

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

Jiang Yu

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

Sihao Li

Affiliations Department of General Surgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China, International Department, the Affiliated High School of SCNU, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China

Hao Liu

wonder0618.dw@gmail.com

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

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

Guoxin Li

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

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: DW TL HL GL. Performed the experiments: DW TL GY ZS SL. Analyzed the data: DW HL TM YH GL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DW HL TM YH JY SL. Wrote the paper: DW TL HL GL.