About the Authors

Hui Guo

Contributed equally to this work with: Hui Guo, Jie Ming

Affiliation Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Jie Ming

Contributed equally to this work with: Hui Guo, Jie Ming

Affiliation Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Chunping Liu

Affiliation Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Zhi Li

Affiliation Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Ning Zhang

Affiliation Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Hongtao Cheng

Affiliation Department of Breast Surgery, Hubei Cancer Hospital, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Wei Wang

Affiliation Department of Breast Surgery, Hubei Cancer Hospital, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Wei Shi

Affiliation Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Na Shen

Affiliation Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Qunzi Zhao

Affiliation Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Dapeng Li

Affiliation Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Pengfei Yi

Affiliation Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Longqiang Wang

Affiliation Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Rui Wang

Affiliation Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Yue Xin

Affiliation Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Xiangwang Zhao

Affiliation Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Xiu Nie

huangtaowh@gmail.com (TH); niexiuyishi@126.com (XN)

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Tao Huang

huangtaowh@gmail.com (TH); niexiuyishi@126.com (XN)

Affiliation Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TH HG JM. Performed the experiments: HG WS WW QZ PY RW YX XZ. Analyzed the data: HG JM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XN CL ZL HC NZ NS DL LW. Wrote the paper: HG JM XN TH.