About the Authors

Soo-Kyoung Park

Contributed equally to this work with: Soo-Kyoung Park, Yong-De Jin

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Research Institute for Medical Science, Chungnam National University School of Medicine, Daejeon, Korea

Yong-De Jin

Contributed equally to this work with: Soo-Kyoung Park, Yong-De Jin

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Yanbian University Hospital, Yanji, China

Yeong-Kyu Park

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Research Institute for Medical Science, Chungnam National University School of Medicine, Daejeon, Korea

Sun-Hee Yeon

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Research Institute for Medical Science, Chungnam National University School of Medicine, Daejeon, Korea

Jun Xu

Roles Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Research Institute for Medical Science, Chungnam National University School of Medicine, Daejeon, Korea, Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Yanbian University Hospital, Yanji, China

Rui-Ning Han

Roles Resources, Software, Supervision

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Research Institute for Medical Science, Chungnam National University School of Medicine, Daejeon, Korea, Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Yanbian University Hospital, Yanji, China

Ki-Sang Rha

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Research Institute for Medical Science, Chungnam National University School of Medicine, Daejeon, Korea

Yong-Min Kim

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision

entkym@cnu.ac.kr

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Research Institute for Medical Science, Chungnam National University School of Medicine, Daejeon, Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.