About the Authors

Yu Xiong

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu Xiong, Xiumei Guo, Xinyue Huang, Xiaodong Kang

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Fujian Medical University, Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China

Xiumei Guo

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu Xiong, Xiumei Guo, Xinyue Huang, Xiaodong Kang

Roles Software

Affiliations Department of Neurosurgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Fujian Medical University, Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China, Department of Neurology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Fujian Medical University, Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China

Xinyue Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu Xiong, Xiumei Guo, Xinyue Huang, Xiaodong Kang

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Fujian Medical University, Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China

Xiaodong Kang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu Xiong, Xiumei Guo, Xinyue Huang, Xiaodong Kang

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Fujian Medical University, Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China

Jianfeng Zhou

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Fujian Medical University, Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China

Chunhui Chen

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Fujian Medical University, Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China

Zhigang Pan

Roles Validation

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Fujian Medical University, Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China

Linxing Wang

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Neurology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Fujian Medical University, Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China

Roland Goldbrunner

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Center for Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Lampis Stavrinou

Roles Validation

Affiliation 2nd Department of Neurosurgery, "Attikon" University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University, Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece

Pantelis Stavrinou

Roles Supervision

Affiliations Department of Neurosurgery, Center for Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Neurosurgery, Metropolitan Hospital, Athens, Greece

Shu Lin

Roles Writing – review & editing

dr.feng.zheng@gmail.com (FZ); neurosurgery_fyey@163.com (WH); 503106356@qq.com (YC); shulin1956@126.com (SL)

Affiliations Centre of Neurological and Metabolic Research, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Quanzhou, China, Diabetes and Metabolism Division, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Yuping Chen

Roles Writing – review & editing

dr.feng.zheng@gmail.com (FZ); neurosurgery_fyey@163.com (WH); 503106356@qq.com (YC); shulin1956@126.com (SL)

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Fujian Medical University, Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China

Weipeng Hu

Roles Writing – review & editing

dr.feng.zheng@gmail.com (FZ); neurosurgery_fyey@163.com (WH); 503106356@qq.com (YC); shulin1956@126.com (SL)

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Fujian Medical University, Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China

Feng Zheng

Roles Writing – review & editing

dr.feng.zheng@gmail.com (FZ); neurosurgery_fyey@163.com (WH); 503106356@qq.com (YC); shulin1956@126.com (SL)

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Fujian Medical University, Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.