About the Authors

Geng Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Geng Wang, Qingbo Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Qingbo Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Geng Wang, Qingbo Wang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery II, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Jie Bai

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Gang Li

Roles Investigation, Software

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Kaixiong Tao

Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Guobin Wang

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Zefeng Xia

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

xiazefe0521@sina.com

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.