About the Authors

Qu Wang

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Thoracic Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China, Graduate School, Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China

Yu Hao Xu

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Thoracic Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China, Graduate School, Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China

Heng Jiang

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software

Affiliation The First Clinical College, Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, China

Biao Deng

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China

Zhu Liang

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

liangzhuwsh@163.com

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.