About the Authors

Arnaud P. J. Giese

Contributed equally to this work with: Arnaud P. J. Giese, Jess G. Guarnaschelli, Jonette A. Ward

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jess G. Guarnaschelli

Contributed equally to this work with: Arnaud P. J. Giese, Jess G. Guarnaschelli, Jonette A. Ward

Jessica_Guarnaschelli@trihealth.com (JGG); zahmed@smail.umaryland.edu (ZMA)

Affiliations Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Radiation Oncology, TriHealth Cancer Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Jonette A. Ward

Contributed equally to this work with: Arnaud P. J. Giese, Jess G. Guarnaschelli, Jonette A. Ward

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Daniel I. Choo

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Saima Riazuddin

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Zubair M. Ahmed

Jessica_Guarnaschelli@trihealth.com (JGG); zahmed@smail.umaryland.edu (ZMA)

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: APJG JGG ZMA. Performed the experiments: APJG JAW. Analyzed the data: APJG JAW DIC SR ZMA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DIC SR. Wrote the paper: APJG JGG SR ZMA.