About the Authors

Haizhong Huo

‡ These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, The Ninth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao-Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Zhiyuan Zhou

‡ These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, The Ninth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao-Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Jian Qin

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, The Ninth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao-Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Wenyong Liu

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, The Ninth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao-Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Bing Wang

bingwang112@126.com (BW); drguyan@hotmail.com (YG)

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, The Ninth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao-Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Yan Gu

bingwang112@126.com (BW); drguyan@hotmail.com (YG)

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, The Ninth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao-Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HH ZZ WL BW YG. Performed the experiments: HH ZZ JQ WL BW. Analyzed the data: HH ZZ BW YG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HH BW YG. Wrote the paper: HH ZZ BW YG.