About the Authors

Liying Song

Contributed equally to this work with: Liying Song, Haonan Zhou, Qian Yang

Roles Data curation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Thyroid Surgery, First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

Haonan Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Liying Song, Haonan Zhou, Qian Yang

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Vascular Surgery, Shanxi Bethune Hospital, Shanxi Academy of Medical Sciences and Tongji Shanxi Hospital, Tongji Medical College of HUST, Third Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

Qian Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Liying Song, Haonan Zhou, Qian Yang

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation First School of Clinical Medicine, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

Ningyu He

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Thyroid Surgery, First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

Feifan Fu

Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation First School of Clinical Medicine, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

Weichao Li

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Thyroid Surgery, First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

Guosheng Duan

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Radiotherapy Department, Shanxi Provincial Peoples Hospital: Fifth Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

Di Wu

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Fifth School of Clinical Medicine, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

Shuai Hao

Roles Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Basic Medicine, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

Jiaxing Wang

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Management, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

Jing Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration

liujing5585@163.com

Affiliation Department of Thyroid Surgery, First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

Competing Interests

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.