About the Authors

Bin Cai

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Anorectal Surgery, Wuxi Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Wuxi, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

Min-hong Zhou

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Wuxi Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Wuxi, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

Hua-li Huang

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Anorectal Surgery, Wuxi Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Wuxi, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

A-cheng Zhou

Roles Project administration

Affiliation Department of Anorectal Surgery, Wuxi Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Wuxi, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

Zheng-da Chu

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Anorectal Surgery, Wuxi Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Wuxi, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

Xiao-dong Huang

Roles Methodology, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Anorectal Surgery, Wuxi Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Wuxi, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

Chun-wei Li

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

lichunweiwx@126.com

Affiliation Department of Anorectal Surgery, Wuxi Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Wuxi, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.