About the Authors

Zhongxia Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhongxia Wang, Yin Cao

Affiliations Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China, Jiangsu Province’s Key Medical Center for Hepatobiliary Surgery, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Yin Cao

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhongxia Wang, Yin Cao

Affiliations Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China, Jiangsu Province’s Key Medical Center for Hepatobiliary Surgery, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Chunping Jiang

Affiliations Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China, Jiangsu Province’s Key Medical Center for Hepatobiliary Surgery, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Guang Yang

Affiliations Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China, Jiangsu Province’s Key Medical Center for Hepatobiliary Surgery, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Junhua Wu

Affiliation School of Medicine, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Yitao Ding

dingyitao@yahoo.com.cn

Affiliations Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China, Jiangsu Province’s Key Medical Center for Hepatobiliary Surgery, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZW YC CJ YD. Performed the experiments: ZW YC CJ GY YD. Analyzed the data: ZW YC CJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GY JW YD. Wrote the paper: ZW YC CJ.