About the Authors

Ling Feng

Contributed equally to this work with: Ling Feng, Ru Wang

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China

Ru Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ling Feng, Ru Wang

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China

Meng Lian

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China

Hongzhi Ma

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China

Ning He

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China, Department of Head and Neck Surgery, The People’s Hospital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Nanning, Guangxi, China

Honggang Liu

Affiliation Beijing Key Laboratory of Head and Neck Molecular Diagnostic Pathology, Beijing, China

Haizhou Wang

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China

Jugao Fang

fangjg19651110@163.com

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China, Beijing Key Laboratory of Head and Neck Molecular Diagnostic Pathology, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JF. Data curation: HL. Formal analysis: LF RW. Funding acquisition: JF. Investigation: LF RW ML. Project administration: LF RW. Resources: HM NH. Supervision: JF. Writing – original draft: LF RW HW.