About the Authors

Sheng Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Sheng Li, Xian-Tao Zeng

Affiliation Department of Urology, Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Xian-Tao Zeng

Contributed equally to this work with: Sheng Li, Xian-Tao Zeng

Affiliation Center for Evidence-based Medicine and Clinical Research, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan, People's Republic of China

Xiao-Lan Ruan

Affiliation Department and Institute of Hematology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Hong Weng

Affiliation Center for Evidence-based Medicine and Clinical Research, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan, People's Republic of China

Tong-Zu Liu

Affiliation Department of Urology, Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Xiao Wang

Affiliation Department of Urology, Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Chao Zhang

Affiliation Center for Evidence-based Medicine and Clinical Research, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan, People's Republic of China

Zhe Meng

Affiliation Department of Urology, Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Xing-Huan Wang

wangxinghuan1965@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Urology, Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XHW SL. Performed the experiments: SL XW HW XTZ ZM TZL ZM. Analyzed the data: SL TZL XTZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XHW XTZ CZ. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: SL XTZ XLR.