About the Authors

Wen Gu

Contributed equally to this work with: Wen Gu, Daiwei Wan, Qinyi Qian

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China

Daiwei Wan

Contributed equally to this work with: Wen Gu, Daiwei Wan, Qinyi Qian

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Qinyi Qian

Contributed equally to this work with: Wen Gu, Daiwei Wan, Qinyi Qian

Affiliation Department of Ultrasonography, Changshu No. 2 People’s Hospital, Changshu, China

Bin Yi

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China

Zhilong He

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital of SooChow University, Suzhou, China

Yilin Gu

Affiliation Department of Operating Rooms, The First Affiliated Hospital of SooChow University, Suzhou, China

Liang Wang

hesongbing1979@163.com (SH); wangliangsuda@163.com (LW)

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China

Songbing He

hesongbing1979@163.com (SH); wangliangsuda@163.com (LW)

Affiliations Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China, Institute of Health Science and Shanghai Institute of Immunology, Shanghai Institute for Biological Science, Chinese Academy of Science and Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WG DW. Performed the experiments: WG QQ DW. Analyzed the data: WG BY ZH YG QQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WG DW SH LW QQ. Wrote the paper: WG. This research is funded by: LW SH.