About the Authors

Yoichiro Shinohara

Contributed equally to this work with: Yoichiro Shinohara, Tomoyuki Kashima

m14702001@gunma-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Gunma University School of Medicine, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan

Tomoyuki Kashima

Contributed equally to this work with: Yoichiro Shinohara, Tomoyuki Kashima

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Gunma University School of Medicine, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan

Hideo Akiyama

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Gunma University School of Medicine, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan

Yukitoshi Shimoda

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Gunma University School of Medicine, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan

Danjie Li

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Gunma University School of Medicine, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan

Shoji Kishi

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Gunma University School of Medicine, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: Y. Shinohara TK HA SK. Data curation: TK DL. Formal analysis: Y. Shinohara TK. Investigation: Y. Shinohara TK. Methodology: Y. Shinohara TK HA SK. Project administration: HA. Supervision: HA SK. Validation: Y. Shimoda. Writing – original draft: Y.Shinohara TK HA SK. Writing – review & editing: Y.Shinohara HA.