About the Authors

Dong Wook Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Dong Wook Kim, Eun Ji Kim

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Eun Ji Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Dong Wook Kim, Eun Ji Kim

Affiliation Department of Chemical Engineering, Hanyang University, Ansan, Gyeonggi-do 426–791, Republic of Korea

Eun Na Kim

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Myung Whun Sung

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Tack-Kyun Kwon

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Yong Woo Cho

otolarynx@snuh.org (SKK); ywcho77@gmail.com (YWC)

Affiliation Department of Chemical Engineering, Hanyang University, Ansan, Gyeonggi-do 426–791, Republic of Korea

Seong Keun Kwon

otolarynx@snuh.org (SKK); ywcho77@gmail.com (YWC)

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SKK YWC. Data curation: DWK EJK SKK YWC. Formal analysis: DWK SKK ENK. Funding acquisition: SKK. Investigation: DWK SKK ENK. Methodology: SKK YWC. Project administration: SKK. Resources: EJK YWC. Software: SKK MWS. Supervision: SKK. Validation: SKK TKK YWC. Visualization: DWK SKK. Writing – original draft: DWK SKK YWC. Writing – review & editing: DWK TKK YWC SKK.