About the Authors

Zhifeng Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhifeng Wu, Lihua Sun, Hongjun Wang

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, the Affiliated Wuxi People’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, People’s Republic of China

Lihua Sun

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhifeng Wu, Lihua Sun, Hongjun Wang

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, the Affiliated Wuxi People’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, People’s Republic of China

Hongjun Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhifeng Wu, Lihua Sun, Hongjun Wang

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, People’s Republic of China

Jianshe Yao

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, the Affiliated Wuxi People’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, People’s Republic of China

Chuanlu Jiang

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, People’s Republic of China

Wenhui Xu

wuxiyangz@126.com (ZY); neuro_slh@126.com (WX)

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, the Affiliated Yixin People’s Hospital of Jiangsu University, Yixin, People’s Republic of China

Zhengxiang Yang

wuxiyangz@126.com (ZY); neuro_slh@126.com (WX)

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, the Affiliated Wuxi People’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZY WX. Performed the experiments: ZW LS HW. Analyzed the data: LS HW JY CJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZW LS HW. Wrote the paper: ZY WX.