About the Authors

Liang Sun

Affiliations Department of Urology, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Jinan, ShanDong, China, Department of Cardiac Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, ShanDong, China

Jiaju Lu

Affiliation Department of Urology, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Jinan, ShanDong, China

Zhihong Niu

Affiliation Department of Urology, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Jinan, ShanDong, China

Kejia Ding

Affiliation Department of Urology, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Jinan, ShanDong, China

Dongbin Bi

Affiliation Department of Urology, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Jinan, ShanDong, China

Shuai Liu

Affiliation Department of Urology, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Jinan, ShanDong, China

Jiamei Li

Affiliation Department of pathology, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Jinan, ShanDong, China

Fei Wu

Affiliation Department of Urology, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Jinan, ShanDong, China

Hui Zhang

Affiliation Department of Urology, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Jinan, ShanDong, China

Zuohui Zhao

Affiliation Department of Urology, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Jinan, ShanDong, China

Sentai Ding

dingsentai@126.com

Affiliation Department of Urology, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Jinan, ShanDong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: STD JJL KJD. Performed the experiments: LS SL FW ZHZ JML. Analyzed the data: ZHN DBB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LS HZ. Wrote the paper: LS. Approving final version of manuscript: LS JJL STD.