About the Authors

Di Ruan

Contributed equally to this work with: Di Ruan, Xiao-Bo Yu

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, the People’s Republic of China

Xiao-Bo Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Di Ruan, Xiao-Bo Yu

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, the People’s Republic of China

Sudeep Shrestha

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, the People’s Republic of China

Lin Wang

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, the People’s Republic of China

Gao Chen

d.chengao@163.com

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, the People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DR XBY. Performed the experiments: DR XBY SS. Analyzed the data: XBY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XBY LW GC. Wrote the paper: DR XBY.