About the Authors

Xiang Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiang Li, Zong-yu Zhou

Affiliations Department of Orthopedics, the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, 215006, People’s Republic of China, Department of Orthopedics, Huai'an First People's Hospital, Huai'an, 223300, People’s Republic of China

Zong-yu Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiang Li, Zong-yu Zhou

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Huaiyin hospital of Huai’an city, Huai'an, 223300, People’s Republic of China

Yuan-yuan Zhang

hlyang@suda.edu.cn (HY); hazhangyuanyuan@163.com (YZ)

Affiliation Department of pediatrics, Huai'an First People's Hospital, Huai'an, 223300, People’s Republic of China

Hui-lin Yang

hlyang@suda.edu.cn (HY); hazhangyuanyuan@163.com (YZ)

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, 215006, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YZ HY. Performed the experiments: XL ZZ YZ. Analyzed the data: XL ZZ YZ HY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YZ HY. Wrote the paper: XL ZZ YZ HY.