About the Authors

Kun Tang

Contributed equally to this work with: Kun Tang, Heng Li

Affiliation Department of Urology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Heng Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Kun Tang, Heng Li

Affiliation Department of Urology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Ding Xia

Affiliation Department of Urology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Zhiquan Hu

Affiliation Department of Urology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Qianyuan Zhuang

Affiliation Department of Urology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Jihong Liu

Affiliation Department of Urology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Hua Xu

xuhua@mail.hust.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Urology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Zhangqun Ye

Affiliation Department of Urology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KT HX QYZ. Performed the experiments: KT HL DX. Analyzed the data: KT HL DX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZQH ZQY JHL. Wrote the paper: KT HL HX.