About the Authors

Nian-Song Qian

Contributed equally to this work with: Nian-Song Qian, Wei-Hui Liu, Wen-Ping Lv, Xin Xiang

1027702480@qq.com (YLC); qianniansong1@163.com (NSQ)

Affiliations Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China, Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Hainan Branch of PLA General Hospital, Sanya, China

Wei-Hui Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Nian-Song Qian, Wei-Hui Liu, Wen-Ping Lv, Xin Xiang

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, General Hospital of Chengdu Military Region, Chengdu, China

Wen-Ping Lv

Contributed equally to this work with: Nian-Song Qian, Wei-Hui Liu, Wen-Ping Lv, Xin Xiang

Affiliations Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China, Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Hainan Branch of PLA General Hospital, Sanya, China

Xin Xiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Nian-Song Qian, Wei-Hui Liu, Wen-Ping Lv, Xin Xiang

Affiliations Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China, Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Hainan Branch of PLA General Hospital, Sanya, China

Ming Su

Affiliations Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China, Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Hainan Branch of PLA General Hospital, Sanya, China

Vikram Raut

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Yong-Liang Chen

1027702480@qq.com (YLC); qianniansong1@163.com (NSQ)

Affiliations Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China, Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Hainan Branch of PLA General Hospital, Sanya, China

Jia-Hong Dong

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NSQ WHL. Performed the experiments: NSQ WHL WPL XX MS. Analyzed the data: VR YLC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VR YLC JHD. Wrote the paper: NSQ WHL YLC JHD.