About the Authors

Liancai Wang

Affiliations Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, China, Henan Province People’s Hospital, Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China

Han Liu

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

Xiangli Chen

Affiliation Henan Province People’s Hospital, Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China

Min Zhang

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

Keping Xie

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology, the University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Centre, Houston, Texas

Qingyong Ma

qyma56@mail.xjtu.edu.cn

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LW QM. Performed the experiments: LW XC MZ HL. Analyzed the data: LW XC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QM KX. Wrote the paper: LW HL.