About the Authors

Gang Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Gang Wang, Fei Gao, Weiming Zhang

Affiliation Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of General Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Fei Gao

Contributed equally to this work with: Gang Wang, Fei Gao, Weiming Zhang

Affiliation Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of General Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Weiming Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Gang Wang, Fei Gao, Weiming Zhang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, First Affiliated Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Jia Chen

Affiliation Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of General Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Tao Wang

Affiliation Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of General Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Guoxin Zhang

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, First Affiliated Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Lizong Shen

shenlz@163.com

Affiliation Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of General Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Competing Interests

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LS. Performed the experiments: GW FG WZ. Analyzed the data: GZ JC TW. Wrote the paper: LS.