About the Authors

Haowei He

Contributed equally to this work with: Haowei He, Linhui Wang

Affiliation Department of Urology, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Linhui Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Haowei He, Linhui Wang

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

Wenquan Zhou

Affiliation Department of Urology, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Zhengyu Zhang

Affiliation Department of Urology, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Longxin Wang

Affiliation Department of Urology, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Song Xu

Affiliation Department of Urology, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Dong Wang

Affiliation Department of Urology, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Jie Dong

Affiliation Department of Urology, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Chaopeng Tang

Affiliation Department of Urology, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Hao Tang

Affiliation Department of Urology, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Xiaoming Yi

Affiliation Department of Urology, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Jingping Ge

hehaowei1982@hotmail.com

Affiliation Department of Urology, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HH LW WZ ZZ JG. Performed the experiments: HH SX CT XY. Analyzed the data: LW HT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DW JD HT. Wrote the paper: HH LW.