About the Authors

Qinghe Meng

Affiliation Department of Surgery, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

Mitchell Cooney

Affiliation Department of Surgery, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

Natesh Yepuri

Affiliation Department of Surgery, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

Robert N. Cooney

cooneyr@upstate.edu

Affiliation Department of Surgery, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: QHM RNC. Data curation: QHM MC NY. Formal analysis: QHM NY. Investigation: QHM MC NY. Methodology: QHM RNC. Project administration: QHM RNC. Resources: QHM. Software: QHM. Supervision: RNC. Validation: RNC. Visualization: QHM RNC. Writing – original draft: QHM RNC. Writing – review & editing: QHM RNC.