About the Authors

Geng Guo

Contributed equally to this work with: Geng Guo, Dong Kuai, Sang Cai

guogenger@yahoo.com.cn

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The First Hospital, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, People's Republic of China

Dong Kuai

Contributed equally to this work with: Geng Guo, Dong Kuai, Sang Cai

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The First Hospital, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, People's Republic of China

Sang Cai

Contributed equally to this work with: Geng Guo, Dong Kuai, Sang Cai

Affiliation Institute of Neurosurgery, No.101 Hospital of PLA, Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China

Naizhao Xue

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The First Hospital, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, People's Republic of China

Yueting Liu

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The First Hospital, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, People's Republic of China

Jiehe Hao

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The First Hospital, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, People's Republic of China

Yimin Fan

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The First Hospital, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, People's Republic of China

Ji Jin

Affiliation Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, People's Republic of China

Xinggang Mao

Affiliations Department of Neurosurgery, PLA 254 Hospital, Tianjin, People's Republic of China, Department of Neurosurgery, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, People's Republic of China

Bolin Liu

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, People's Republic of China

Chengliang Zhong

Affiliation Clinical Pharmacological Center, The First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, People's Republic of China

Xiang Zhang

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, People's Republic of China

Yi Yue

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Shanxi’s General Hospital of Chinese People’s Armed Police Force, Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, People's Republic of China

Xiaodong Liu

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The First Hospital, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, People's Republic of China

Ning Ma

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The First Hospital, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, People's Republic of China

Yuhong Guo

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The First Hospital, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GG JH XZ. Performed the experiments: GG DK SC NX YL JJ XM BL XL NM YF. Analyzed the data: CZ YG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YY. Wrote the paper: GG XM BL.