About the Authors

Yonggang Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Yonggang Chen, Jintai Luo, Yingying Zheng

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Urology, Loudi Central Hospital, Loudi, Hunan Province, China

Jintai Luo

Contributed equally to this work with: Yonggang Chen, Jintai Luo, Yingying Zheng

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Urology and Andrology, Minimally Invasive Surgery Center, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Urology, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Loudi Hospital, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Loudi, Hunan Province, China

Yingying Zheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Yonggang Chen, Jintai Luo, Yingying Zheng

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Fangchenggang Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Fangchenggang, Guangxi, China,

Xiaomei Jiang

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Data curation

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Loudi Central Hospital, Loudi, Hunan Province, China

Zixiang Yang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Urology, Loudi Central Hospital, Loudi, Hunan Province, China

Xiaobing Liu

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

ldlxb216399@163.com

Affiliation Department of Urology, Loudi Central Hospital, Loudi, Hunan Province, China

Competing Interests

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.