About the Authors

Zhongtao Li

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of General Surgery (Wenhua Road Campus), The Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China, Institute of Hepatobiliary Pancreatic and Intestinal Diseases, North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China

Hao Guo

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliations Department of General Surgery (Wenhua Road Campus), The Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China, Institute of Hepatobiliary Pancreatic and Intestinal Diseases, North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China

Hongyu He

Roles Software

Affiliations Department of General Surgery (Wenhua Road Campus), The Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China, Institute of Hepatobiliary Pancreatic and Intestinal Diseases, North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China

Shu Wang

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Urology Surgery, The Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China

Shufen Pei

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Lanzhou University Second Hospital, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

Liang Xie

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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Affiliations Department of General Surgery (Wenhua Road Campus), The Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China, Institute of Hepatobiliary Pancreatic and Intestinal Diseases, North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.