About the Authors

Jingxiang Chen

Affiliations Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The Third Affiliated Hospital of the Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China, Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Jiangjin Central Hospital, Chongqing, China

Tao Yuan

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The Third Affiliated Hospital of the Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Menggang Liu

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The Third Affiliated Hospital of the Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Ping Chen

pingchen1956@163.com

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The Third Affiliated Hospital of the Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PC. Performed the experiments: TY ML. Analyzed the data: JC PC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TY ML. Wrote the paper: JC.