About the Authors
- Guo-dong Cao
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Contributed equally to this work with: Guo-dong Cao, Xing-yu Xu
Affiliation Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China
- Xing-yu Xu
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Contributed equally to this work with: Guo-dong Cao, Xing-yu Xu
Affiliation Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China
- Jia-wei Zhang
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Affiliation Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China
- Bo Chen
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* E-mail: chenbo831116@163.com (BC); ayfyxmm@163.com (MMX)
Affiliation Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China
- Mao-ming Xiong
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* E-mail: chenbo831116@163.com (BC); ayfyxmm@163.com (MMX)
Affiliation Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: GDC. Data curation: GDC XYX JWZ. Formal analysis: GDC. Funding acquisition: BC MMX. Investigation: GDC XYX BC. Methodology: BC GDC. Project administration: BC MMX. Resources: GDC JWZ. Software: BC GDC. Validation: MMX. Visualization: GDC. Writing – original draft: GDC. Writing – review & editing: BC MMX.