About the Authors

Yang Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Yang Li, Kotaro Watanabe

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology, School of Medicine, Keio University,35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi Wu Lu, Xi'an, China

Kotaro Watanabe

Contributed equally to this work with: Yang Li, Kotaro Watanabe

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, School of Medicine, Keio University,35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Masato Fujioka

masato@2002.jukuin.keio.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, School of Medicine, Keio University,35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Kaoru Ogawa

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, School of Medicine, Keio University,35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MF. Formal analysis: YL KW MF. Funding acquisition: YL MF. Investigation: KW. Methodology: MF KW. Validation: YL MF KO. Writing – original draft: YL MF. Writing – review & editing: YL MF KO.