About the Authors

Yihui Lei

Contributed equally to this work with: Yihui Lei, Li Lin

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation The School of Clinical Medical, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China

Li Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Yihui Lei, Li Lin

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

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital of Xiamen University, School of Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China

Qiming Shao

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The School of Clinical Medical, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China

Weiping Chen

Roles Methodology

Affiliation The School of Clinical Medical, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China

Guoyan Liu

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

liuguoyan@xmu.edu.cn

Affiliations Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital of Xiamen University, School of Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China, Institute of Gastrointestinal Oncology, Medical College of Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.