1 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100730, China.
2 Department of Thoracic Surgical Oncology, Cancer Institute & Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College; National Cancer Center, Beijing 100021, China.
3 Department of Thoracic Surgery, China and Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing 100096, China.
4 Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China.
5 Department of Thoracic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510230, China.
6 Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease & China State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease & National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou 510120, China.
7 Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University (Yunnan Tumor Hospital), Kunming 650118, China.
8 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Harbin Medical University Cancer Hospital, Harbin 150086, China.
9 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Zhejiang Cancer Hospital, Hangzhou 310022, China.
10 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Institute of Surgery Research, Daping Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400042, China.
11 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, Fuzhou 350001, China.
12 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tangdu Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an 710038, China.
13 Department of Thoracic Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, Xinjiang 830054, China.
14 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital of Tongji University, Shanghai 200433, China.
15 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nanjing Medical University Affiliated Cancer Hospital, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular and Translational Cancer Research, Cancer Institute of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing 210009, China.
16 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou 510060, China.
17 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital, Beijing 100020, China.
18 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Zhongshan Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China.
19 Department of Lung Cancer Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China.
20 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, China.
22 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai 200032, China.
23 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, China.
24 Tianjin Chest Hospital, Tianjin 300051, China.
25 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Henan Cancer Hospital, Zhengzhou 450008, China.
26 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Second Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun 130041, China.
27 Department of Esophageal Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Tianjin 300060, China.
28 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Liaoning Cancer Hospital and Institute, Shenyang 110042, China.
29 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Xuanwu Hospital of Capital Medical University, Beijing 100053, China.
30 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing 100083, China.
31 Department of Thoracic Surgery, The Second Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun 130041, China.
32 Center for Thoracic Surgery, Department of Medicine and Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy.
33 Division of Thoracic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sant'Andrea Hospital, University of Rome 'Sapienza', Rome, Italy.
34 Thoracic Surgery Service, University Hospital of Salamanca, 37007 Salamanca, Spain.
35 Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong, China.
36 Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.
37 Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, 10002, Taipei.
38 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan.
39 Department of Thoracic Surgery, St. James's University Hospital, Leeds, UK.
40 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Klinikum Ernst von Bergmann, Potsdam, Germany.
41 Academic Hospital of the Charité-Universitätsmedizin, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
42 Departament of Thoracic Surgery, Asturias University Central Hospital, Oviedo, Asturias, Spain.
43 Department of Microbiology, Asturias University Central Hospital, Oviedo, Asturias, Spain.