About the Authors

Yan Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Li, Liren Zhang

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

☯ Those authors are co-first authors and contributed equally to this study.

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Wuhai People’s Hospital, Wuhai, China

Liren Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Li, Liren Zhang

Roles Project administration, Resources

☯ Those authors are co-first authors and contributed equally to this study.

Affiliation Dispensary for Western Medicine, Wuhai People’s Hospital, Wuhai, China

Zhi Wen

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Wuhai People’s Hospital, Wuhai, China

Haixia Wang

Roles Project administration

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Wuhai People’s Hospital, Wuhai, China

Kunming Zhang

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Wuhai People’s Hospital, Wuhai, China

Buzai Wang

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

wangbuzai2009@sina.com (BW); yongzheDu@126.com (YD)

Affiliation Department of Medical Imaging, Wuhai People’s Hospital, Wuhai, China

Jinfan Li

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Wuhai People’s Hospital, Wuhai, China

Huiqing Kang

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Wuhai People’s Hospital, Wuhai, China

Yanjun Gao

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Wuhai People’s Hospital, Wuhai, China

Zhi Yu

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Wuhai People’s Hospital, Wuhai, China

Yongzhe Du

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation

wangbuzai2009@sina.com (BW); yongzheDu@126.com (YD)

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Wuhai People’s Hospital, Wuhai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.