About the Authors

Xianye Tang

Affiliation Orthopaedic Department, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Gang Liu

Affiliation Orthopaedic Department, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Jian Kang

Affiliation Orthopaedic Department, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Yang Hou

Affiliation Orthopaedic Department, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Fungui Jiang

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, People's Hospital of Wujiang City, Wujiang, China

Wen Yuan

fuguidoctor@yahoo.com (JS); wenyuancz19@yahoo.com (WY)

Affiliation Orthopaedic Department, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Jiangang Shi

fuguidoctor@yahoo.com (JS); wenyuancz19@yahoo.com (WY)

Affiliation Orthopaedic Department, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XT GL WY JS. Performed the experiments: XT GL JS. Analyzed the data: JK YH FJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XT GL WY JS . Wrote the paper: XT GL WY JS.