About the Authors

Huijie Gao

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

Affiliations Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, General Surgery, Qilu Hospital, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China, The Institute of Laparoscopic Minimally Invasive Surgery of Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China

Zhaobin He

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, General Surgery, Qilu Hospital, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China, The Institute of Laparoscopic Minimally Invasive Surgery of Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China

Shengbiao Yang

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, General Surgery, Qilu Hospital, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China, The Institute of Laparoscopic Minimally Invasive Surgery of Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China

Xiqiang Wang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, General Surgery, Qilu Hospital, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China, The Institute of Laparoscopic Minimally Invasive Surgery of Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China

Qisen Yan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliations Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, General Surgery, Qilu Hospital, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China, The Institute of Laparoscopic Minimally Invasive Surgery of Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China

Chao Gao

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, General Surgery, Qilu Hospital, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China, The Institute of Laparoscopic Minimally Invasive Surgery of Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China

Naiqing Liu

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Linyi Central Hospital, Linyi, Shandong, China

Zhaoyang Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization

Affiliations The Institute of Laparoscopic Minimally Invasive Surgery of Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China, Department of Emergency Medicine, Qilu Hospital, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China

Weibo Niu

Roles Software, Supervision, Validation

Affiliations Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, General Surgery, Qilu Hospital, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China, The Institute of Laparoscopic Minimally Invasive Surgery of Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China

Jun Niu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, General Surgery, Qilu Hospital, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China, The Institute of Laparoscopic Minimally Invasive Surgery of Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China

Cheng Peng

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Dr.Peng@email.sdu.edu.cn

Affiliations Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, General Surgery, Qilu Hospital, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China, The Institute of Laparoscopic Minimally Invasive Surgery of Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.