About the Authors

Rui Zhong

Contributed equally to this work with: Rui Zhong, Xin Jiang

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, China

Xin Jiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Rui Zhong, Xin Jiang

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, China

Yan Peng

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, China

Huan Xu

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, China

Yongfeng Yan

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, China

Li Liu

Roles Supervision

kit9178@sina.com (LL); solitude5834@hotmail.com (XT)

Affiliations Department of Digestive Endoscopy, The First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Xiaowei Tang

Roles Writing – review & editing

kit9178@sina.com (LL); solitude5834@hotmail.com (XT)

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.