About the Authors

Jiaying Lin

Affiliation Clinic for Gynecology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Andreas E. Albers

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Jinbao Qin

Affiliation Department of Vascular Surgery, Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai JiaoTong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, P. R. China

Andreas M. Kaufmann

andreas.kaufmann@charite.de

Affiliation Clinic for Gynecology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JL JQ. Performed the experiments: JL JQ. Analyzed the data: JL JQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JL JQ. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: JL AEA AMK.