About the Authors

Zhu Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhu Li, Juan Chen

lllllzhu@126.com

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Liaocheng People's Hospital, Liaocheng, Shandong, China

Juan Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhu Li, Juan Chen

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Liaocheng People's Hospital, Liaocheng, Shandong, China

Li Li

Affiliation The First People's Hospital of Kunming, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Jiang-Hua Ran

Affiliation The First People's Hospital of Kunming, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Xue-Hua Li

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Liaocheng People's Hospital, Liaocheng, Shandong, China

Zhi-Heng Liu

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Liaocheng People's Hospital, Liaocheng, Shandong, China

Gui-Jie Liu

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Liaocheng People's Hospital, Liaocheng, Shandong, China

Yan-Chao Gao

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Liaocheng People's Hospital, Liaocheng, Shandong, China

Xue-Li Zhang

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Liaocheng People's Hospital, Liaocheng, Shandong, China

Hiu-Dong Sun

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Liaocheng People's Hospital, Liaocheng, Shandong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZL JC LL JHR. Performed the experiments: ZL JC XHL ZHL GJL. Analyzed the data: ZL JC YCG XLZ HDS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZL JC XHL ZHL GJL. Wrote the paper: ZL JC LL JHR.