About the Authors

Yuanfei Peng

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuanfei Peng, Hua Yang, Qing Ye

Affiliation Department of Liver Surgery, Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University; Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion of Ministry of Education, Shanghai, China

Hua Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuanfei Peng, Hua Yang, Qing Ye

Affiliation Department of Liver Surgery, Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University; Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion of Ministry of Education, Shanghai, China

Qing Ye

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuanfei Peng, Hua Yang, Qing Ye

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Tumor Surgery, Fujian Provincial Tumor Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Fujian, China

Houming Zhou

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Shanghai Minimally Invasive Surgery Center, Institute of Digestive Surgery, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Minhua Zheng

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Shanghai Minimally Invasive Surgery Center, Institute of Digestive Surgery, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Yinghong Shi

peng.yuanfei@zs-hospital.sh.cn

Affiliation Department of Liver Surgery, Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University; Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion of Ministry of Education, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: YFP MHZ YHS. Formal analysis: QY HMZ. Funding acquisition: YFP QY MHZ YHS. Investigation: YFP HY QY HMZ. Methodology: YFP HY QY. Resources: MHZ YHS. Validation: YFP MHZ YHS. Visualization: YFP MHZ YHS. Writing – original draft: YFP. Writing – review & editing: MHZ YHS.