About the Authors

Ping Kong

Contributed equally to this work with: Ping Kong, Lei Yang, Haibing Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Urology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China

Lei Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ping Kong, Lei Yang, Haibing Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Urology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China

Haibing Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ping Kong, Lei Yang, Haibing Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Urology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China

Zhiqi Liu

Roles Data curation

Current address: Department of Urology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, No. 678 Fu-Rong Road, 230106 Hefei, Anhui, China

Affiliation Department of Urology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China

Zhiqiang Zhang

Roles Writing – review & editing

zhangzq_urology@163.com

Affiliation Department of Urology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.