About the Authors

Qinghua Guo

Contributed equally to this work with: Qinghua Guo, Yan Yang

Affiliation The Division of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Yan Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Qinghua Guo, Yan Yang

Affiliation The Division of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Yiming Mu

muyiming@301hospital.com.cn

Affiliation The Division of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Jvming Lu

Affiliation The Division of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Changyu Pan

Affiliation The Division of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Jingtao Dou

Affiliation The Division of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Zhaohui Lv

Affiliation The Division of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Jianming Ba

Affiliation The Division of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Baoan Wang

Affiliation The Division of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Xiaoman Zou

Affiliation The Division of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Lijuan Yang

Affiliation The Division of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Jinzhi Ouyang

Affiliation The Division of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Guoqing Yang

Affiliation The Division of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Xianling Wang

Affiliation The Division of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Jin Du

Affiliation The Division of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Weijun Gu

Affiliation The Division of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Nan Jin

Affiliation The Division of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Kang Chen

Affiliation The Division of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Li Zang

Affiliation The Division of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Bradley J. Erickson

Affiliation Radiology, Mayo Medical School, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Revised article critically: YM BJE. Conceived and designed the experiments: QG YY YM. Performed the experiments: QG YY YM JL CP J. Dou ZL JB BW XZ LY JO GY XW J. Du WG NJ KC LZ BJE. Analyzed the data: QG YY YM JL CP J. Dou ZL JB BW XZ LY JO GY XW J. Du WG NJ KC LZ BJE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BW. Wrote the paper: QG YY.