About the Authors

Haodong Wu

Roles Visualization, Writing – original draft

☯ Co-first authorship: The first two authors contributed equally to this manuscript.

Affiliations Department of Knee Joint Surgery, Honghui Hospital, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, Medical College of Yan’an University, Yan’an University, Yan’an, Shannxi, China

Shuxin Yao

Roles Writing – original draft

☯ Co-first authorship: The first two authors contributed equally to this manuscript.

Affiliation Department of Knee Joint Surgery, Honghui Hospital, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

Yuanchi Huang

Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ Co-Corresponding authorship: The last three authors contributed equally to this manuscript and shared the corresponding authorship.

Affiliation Department of Knee Joint Surgery, Honghui Hospital, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

Chao Xu

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ Co-Corresponding authorship: The last three authors contributed equally to this manuscript and shared the corresponding authorship.

Affiliations Department of Knee Joint Surgery, Honghui Hospital, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, Department of Health Statistics, Faculty of Preventive Medicine, the Air Force Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Jianbing Ma

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

drmajianbing@163.com

‡ Co-Corresponding authorship: The last three authors contributed equally to this manuscript and shared the corresponding authorship.

Affiliation Department of Knee Joint Surgery, Honghui Hospital, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.