About the Authors

Qi Ding

Contributed equally to this work with: Qi Ding, Ying Shi

Affiliation Department of Urology, The Changshu Hospital Affiliated to Soochow University, Changshu, China

Ying Shi

Contributed equally to this work with: Qi Ding, Ying Shi

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The Changshu Hospital Affiliated to Soochow University, Changshu, China

Bo Fan

Affiliation Department of Urology, The Changshu Hospital Affiliated to Soochow University, Changshu, China

Zhijiang Fan

Affiliation Department of Urology, The Changshu Hospital Affiliated to Soochow University, Changshu, China

Li Ding

Affiliation Department of Urology, The Changshu Hospital Affiliated to Soochow University, Changshu, China

Feng Li

Affiliation Department of Urology, The Changshu Hospital Affiliated to Soochow University, Changshu, China

Wenjian Tu

Affiliation Department of Urology, The Changshu Hospital Affiliated to Soochow University, Changshu, China

Xiaohua Jin

Affiliation Department of Urology, The Changshu Hospital Affiliated to Soochow University, Changshu, China

Jing Wang

csyyjingwang@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Urology, The Changshu Hospital Affiliated to Soochow University, Changshu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QD JW. Performed the experiments: QD YS. Analyzed the data: QD BF ZF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QD LD WT FL. Wrote the paper: QD XJ.