About the Authors

Lingling Zeng

Contributed equally to this work with: Lingling Zeng, Yang Yang, Yujuan Hu

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Union Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei province, P. R. China

Yang Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Lingling Zeng, Yang Yang, Yujuan Hu

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Union Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei province, P. R. China

Yujuan Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Lingling Zeng, Yang Yang, Yujuan Hu

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Union Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei province, P. R. China

Yu Sun

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Union Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei province, P. R. China

Zhengde Du

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Nanshan Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical College, Shenzhen, China

Zhen Xie

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Union Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei province, P. R. China

Tao Zhou

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Union Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei province, P. R. China

Weijia Kong

entwjkong@hust.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Union Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei province, P. R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LLZ YY YJH YS WJK. Performed the experiments: LLZ ZDD ZX TZ. Analyzed the data: LLZ YY YJH YS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LLZ YY YJH. Wrote the paper: LLZ YY WJK.