About the Authors
- Hideya Takeuchi
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Contributed equally to this work with: Hideya Takeuchi, Hirohumi Kawanaka
* E-mail: t3996a@yahoo.co.jp
Affiliation Department of Surgery, National Hospital Organization Beppu Medical Center, Beppu, Oita, Japan
- Hirohumi Kawanaka
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Contributed equally to this work with: Hideya Takeuchi, Hirohumi Kawanaka
Affiliations Department of Surgery, National Hospital Organization Beppu Medical Center, Beppu, Oita, Japan, Clinical Research Institute, National Hospital Organization Beppu Medical Center, Beppu, Oita, Japan
- Seiichi Fukuyama
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, National Hospital Organization Beppu Medical Center, Beppu, Oita, Japan
- Nobuhide Kubo
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, National Hospital Organization Beppu Medical Center, Beppu, Oita, Japan
- Shoji Hiroshige
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¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Department of Surgery, National Hospital Organization Beppu Medical Center, Beppu, Oita, Japan
- Tokujiro Yano
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¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Department of Surgery, National Hospital Organization Beppu Medical Center, Beppu, Oita, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: HT. Data curation: HT HK. Formal analysis: HT HK TY. Funding acquisition: HK. Investigation: HT SF. Methodology: SH. Project administration: NK. Resources: HT. Software: SF. Supervision: HT. Validation: HT HK TY. Visualization: HT. Writing – original draft: HT. Writing – review & editing: HT.