About the Authors

Dongliang Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Emergency, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Yudong Liu

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation First Department of Thoracic Surgery, Hunan Cancer Hospital and the Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Tianding Wu

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Spine Surgery and Orthopaedics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Jianzhong Hu

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

jianzhonghu@csu.eud.cn

Affiliation Department of Spine Surgery and Orthopaedics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.