About the Authors

Xiaofei Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Thyroid & Parathyroid Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, P.R. China

Jingqiang Zhu

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Thyroid & Parathyroid Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, P.R. China

Zhihui Li

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Thyroid & Parathyroid Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, P.R. China

Tao Wei

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft

docweitao@sina.com

Affiliation Department of Thyroid & Parathyroid Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, P.R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.