About the Authors

Li Xia

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Mianyang Central Hospital, Mianyang, Sichuan, China

Gang He

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital and Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Yong Feng

Roles Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital and Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Xiaoxu Yu

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital and Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Xiaolong Zhao

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital and Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Shankai Yin

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People’s Hospital, Shanghai, China

Zhengnong Chen

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People’s Hospital, Shanghai, China

Jian Wang

Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

dc1220@sina.com (CD); jian.wang@dal.ca (JW); entscfjg@163.com (JF)

Affiliation School of Communication Science and Disorders, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Jiangang Fan

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

dc1220@sina.com (CD); jian.wang@dal.ca (JW); entscfjg@163.com (JF)

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital and Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Chuan Dong

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

dc1220@sina.com (CD); jian.wang@dal.ca (JW); entscfjg@163.com (JF)

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital and Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.