About the Authors

Chaofeng Gao

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

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Lanzhou University Second Hospital, Lanzhou, China

Miaoyan Liu

Roles Methodology, Software, Supervision

Affiliation Xi’an Medical University, Xi’an, China

Yuan Sun

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Lanzhou University Second Hospital, Lanzhou, China

Zekun Zhao

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Xi’an Third Hospital, Xi’an, China

Fengxian Wei

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

weifx08@126.com (FW); 13893273850@163.com (XX)

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Lanzhou University Second Hospital, Lanzhou, China

Xiaodong Xu

Roles Writing – review & editing

weifx08@126.com (FW); 13893273850@163.com (XX)

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Lanzhou University Second Hospital, Lanzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.