About the Authors

Koji Okudela

kojixok@med.yokohama-cu.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

Yoko Tateishi

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

Shigeaki Umeda

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

Hideaki Mitsui

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

Takeshisa Suzuki

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

Yuichi Saito

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

Tetsukan Woo

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

Michihiko Tajiri

Affiliation Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Kanagawa Cardiovascular and Respiratory Disease Center Hospital, Yokohama, Japan

Munetaka Masuda

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

Yohei Miyagi

Affiliation Clinical Research Institute, Kanagawa Prefectural Cancer Center Hospital, Yokohama, Japan

Kenichi Ohashi

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: K. Okudela K. Ohashi. Performed the experiments: YS YT SU TS HM. Analyzed the data: K. Okudela. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YM MT MM TW. Wrote the paper: K. Okudela.