About the Authors

Jiwen Cheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiwen Cheng, Wanli Wang

Affiliations Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China, Institute of Advanced Surgical Technology and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Wanli Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiwen Cheng, Wanli Wang

Affiliations Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China, Department of General Surgery, Bazhong Central Hospital, Bazhong, Sichuan, China

Yingjun Zhang

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Bazhong Central Hospital, Bazhong, Sichuan, China

Xi Liu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Muxing Li

Affiliations Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China, Institute of Advanced Surgical Technology and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Zheng Wu

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Zhengwen Liu

Affiliations Institute of Advanced Surgical Technology and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China, Department of Infectious Diseases, First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Yi Lv

1uyi169@126.com (YL); bobwang75@126.com (BW)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China, Institute of Advanced Surgical Technology and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Bo Wang

1uyi169@126.com (YL); bobwang75@126.com (BW)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JC WW BW YL. Performed the experiments: JC WW YZ XL ZW. Analyzed the data: JC WW YL BW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JC WW YZ ML ZL. Wrote the paper: JC WW BW YL.