About the Authors

Chang Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Chang Xu, Fang-Fang Han

Affiliations Department of Urology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, Center for Evidence-Based Medicine and Translational Medicine, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Fang-Fang Han

Contributed equally to this work with: Chang Xu, Fang-Fang Han

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Xian-Tao Zeng

Affiliations Department of Urology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, Center for Evidence-Based Medicine and Translational Medicine, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Tong-Zu Liu

Liutongzu@163.com

Affiliations Department of Urology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, Center for Evidence-Based Medicine and Translational Medicine, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Shen Li

Affiliations Department of Urology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, Center for Evidence-Based Medicine and Translational Medicine, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Zheng-Yan Gao

Affiliation Department of Urology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TZL CX. Performed the experiments: TZL CX FFH. Analyzed the data: CX FFH XTZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XTZ SL. Wrote the paper: CX TZL. Checked all the data: ZYG. Revised the manuscript: CX FFH.