About the Authors

Lijie Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Lijie Zhu, Yuanyuan Mi, Xiaoming You

Affiliation Department of Urology, Third Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China

Yuanyuan Mi

Contributed equally to this work with: Lijie Zhu, Yuanyuan Mi, Xiaoming You

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Affiliation Department of Urology, Third Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China

Xiaoming You

Contributed equally to this work with: Lijie Zhu, Yuanyuan Mi, Xiaoming You

Affiliation Department of Urology, Third Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China

Sheng Wu

Affiliation Department of Urology, Third Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China

Hongbao Shao

Affiliation Department of Urology, Third Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China

Feng Dai

Affiliation Department of Urology, Third Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China

Tao Peng

Affiliation Department of Urology, Third Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China

Feng Qin

Affiliation Department of Urology, Third Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China

Ninghan Feng

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YM LZ. Performed the experiments: LZ. Analyzed the data: SW HS XY TP FQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LZ FD HS NF. Wrote the paper: LZ YM.