About the Authors

Shintaro Maru

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

maru@jinyukai.or.jp

Affiliations Department of Urology, Obihiro-Kosei General Hospital, Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan, Department of Urology, Jinyukai Hospital, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

Hideki Uchino

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Urology, Obihiro-Kosei General Hospital, Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan

Takahiro Osawa

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Renal and Genitourinary Surgery Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

Satoshi Chiba

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Urology, Obihiro-Kosei General Hospital, Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan

Gaku Mouri

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Urology, Obihiro-Kosei General Hospital, Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan

Ataru Sazawa

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Urology, Obihiro-Kosei General Hospital, Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.