About the Authors

Makoto Mihara

Contributed equally to this work with: Makoto Mihara, Hisako Hara

mihara@keiseigeka.name

Affiliation Department of Plastic Surgery and Reconstructive Surgery, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Hisako Hara

Contributed equally to this work with: Makoto Mihara, Hisako Hara

Affiliation Department of Plastic Surgery and Reconstructive Surgery, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Jun Araki

Affiliation Department of Plastic Surgery and Reconstructive Surgery, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Kazuki Kikuchi

Affiliation Department of Plastic Surgery and Reconstructive Surgery, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Mitsunaga Narushima

Affiliation Department of Plastic Surgery and Reconstructive Surgery, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Takumi Yamamoto

Affiliation Department of Plastic Surgery and Reconstructive Surgery, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Takuya Iida

Affiliation Department of Plastic Surgery and Reconstructive Surgery, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Hidehiko Yoshimatsu

Affiliation Department of Plastic Surgery and Reconstructive Surgery, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Noriyuki Murai

Affiliation Department of Vascular Surgery, Saiseikai Kawaguchi Hospital, Saitama, Japan

Kito Mitsui

Affiliation Department of Vascular Surgery, Saiseikai Kawaguchi Hospital, Saitama, Japan

Taro Okitsu

Affiliation Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

Isao Koshima

Affiliation Department of Plastic Surgery and Reconstructive Surgery, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MM HH. Performed the experiments: MM HH JA MN TY TI HY NM KM TO IK. Analyzed the data: MM HH KK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MM HH. Wrote the paper: MM HH.