About the Authors

Jia-Guo Zhao

orthopaedic@163.com (JGZ); kanshilian@126.com (SLK)

Affiliations Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery, Clinical College of Orthopaedic Surgery, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Tianjin Hospital, Tianjin, China

Jia Wang

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Tianjin Hospital, Tianjin, China

Xiao-Hui Meng

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Yixing Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Yixing, Jiangsu Province, China

Xian-Tie Zeng

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Tianjin Hospital, Tianjin, China

Shi-Lian Kan

orthopaedic@163.com (JGZ); kanshilian@126.com (SLK)

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Tianjin Hospital, Tianjin, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JGZ SLK. Data curation: JW. Formal analysis: XHM JGZ. Funding acquisition: JW JGZ XTZ. Investigation: JGZ JW XHM. Methodology: JGZ. Project administration: JW. Resources: JW. Software: XHM JGZ. Supervision: SLK. Validation: XHM XTZ. Visualization: JGZ SLK. Writing – original draft: JGZ. Writing – review & editing: JGZ.