About the Authors
- Yu-Chieh Ko
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Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Faculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
- De-Kuang Hwang
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Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Ophthalmology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
- Wei-Ta Chen
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Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Neurological Institute, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
- Ching-Chih Lee
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ching-Chih Lee, Catherine J. Liu
* E-mail: jlliu@vghtpe.gov.tw (CJL); hematcd2@hotmail.com (LCC)
Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Dalin Tzu-Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Chiayi, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualian, Taiwan
- Catherine J. Liu
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ching-Chih Lee, Catherine J. Liu
* E-mail: jlliu@vghtpe.gov.tw (CJL); hematcd2@hotmail.com (LCC)
Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Faculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: YCK DKH WTC CJL. Performed the experiments: CCL DKH. Analyzed the data: CCL DKH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CCL DKH WTC. Wrote the paper: YCK DKH WTC CCL CJL.