About the Authors

Xiao-Bin Lv

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiao-Bin Lv, Gui-Yong Lian

Affiliation Medical Research Center Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510120, China

Gui-Yong Lian

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiao-Bin Lv, Gui-Yong Lian

Affiliation Department of Thoracic-Cardiac Surgery, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510120, China

Hao-Ran Wang

Affiliation Department of Thoracic-Cardiac Surgery, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510120, China

Erwei Song

Affiliation Breast Tumor Center, Department of Breast Surgery, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510120, China

Herui Yao

Wangminghui01@yahoo.com.cn (MHW); yaoherui@163.com (HY)

Affiliation Breast Tumor Center, Department of Breast Surgery, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510120, China

Ming-Hui Wang

Wangminghui01@yahoo.com.cn (MHW); yaoherui@163.com (HY)

Affiliation Department of Thoracic-Cardiac Surgery, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510120, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ES HY MHW. Performed the experiments: XBL GYL. Analyzed the data: XBL GYL HRW. Wrote the paper: XBL HY MHW. Pathological review: HRW.