About the Authors

Mingjiang Luo

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ ML, ZM, ST and JH co-first authors on this work. ZM, ZY, GX and ZX co-corresponding authors on this work.

Affiliation The Second Affiliated Hospital, Hengyang Medical School, University of South China, Hengyang City, Hunan Province, China

Zubing Mei

Roles Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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‡ ML, ZM, ST and JH co-first authors on this work. ZM, ZY, GX and ZX co-corresponding authors on this work.

Affiliations The Second Affiliated Hospital, Hengyang Medical School, University of South China, Hengyang City, Hunan Province, China, Department of Anorectal Surgery, Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China, Anorectal Disease Institute of Shuguang Hospital, Shanghai, China

Siliang Tang

Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Software

‡ ML, ZM, ST and JH co-first authors on this work. ZM, ZY, GX and ZX co-corresponding authors on this work.

Affiliation The Second Affiliated Hospital, Hengyang Medical School, University of South China, Hengyang City, Hunan Province, China

Jinshan Huang

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

‡ ML, ZM, ST and JH co-first authors on this work. ZM, ZY, GX and ZX co-corresponding authors on this work.

Affiliation The Second Affiliated Hospital, Hengyang Medical School, University of South China, Hengyang City, Hunan Province, China

Kun Yuan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Hengyang Medical School, University of South China, Hengyang City, Hunan Province, China

Lingling Jiang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Hengyang Medical School, University of South China, Hengyang City, Hunan Province, China

Zhifeng Tang

Roles Resources, Software

Affiliation Hengyang Medical School, University of South China, Hengyang City, Hunan Province, China

Keni Li

Roles Project administration, Software

Affiliation Hengyang Medical School, University of South China, Hengyang City, Hunan Province, China

Mingxuan Su

Roles Investigation, Software

Affiliation Hengyang Medical School, University of South China, Hengyang City, Hunan Province, China

Can Su

Roles Software

Affiliation Hengyang Medical School, University of South China, Hengyang City, Hunan Province, China

Yuxin Shi

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Dentistry, First Affiliated Hospital (Affiliated Stomatological Hospital) of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, China

Zihan Zhang

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation The Second Affiliated Hospital, Hengyang Medical School, University of South China, Hengyang City, Hunan Province, China

Jiang Chen

Roles Data curation

Affiliation The Second Affiliated Hospital, Hengyang Medical School, University of South China, Hengyang City, Hunan Province, China

Yuan Zheng

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation The Second Affiliated Hospital, Hengyang Medical School, University of South China, Hengyang City, Hunan Province, China

Peng Bin

Roles Data curation

Affiliation The Second Affiliated Hospital, Hengyang Medical School, University of South China, Hengyang City, Hunan Province, China

Zhengbing Yuan

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ ML, ZM, ST and JH co-first authors on this work. ZM, ZY, GX and ZX co-corresponding authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Dongguan Qiaotou Hospital, Dongguan, Guangdong, China

Guosong Xu

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

‡ ML, ZM, ST and JH co-first authors on this work. ZM, ZY, GX and ZX co-corresponding authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, The First Hospital of Putian City, The School of Clinical Medicine, Fujian Medical University, Putian, Fujian, China

Zhihong Xiao

Roles Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ ML, ZM, ST and JH co-first authors on this work. ZM, ZY, GX and ZX co-corresponding authors on this work.

Affiliation The Second Affiliated Hospital, Hengyang Medical School, University of South China, Hengyang City, Hunan Province, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.