About the Authors

Masaru Noda

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliations Department of Gastrointestinal Tract Surgery, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan, Department of Breast Surgery, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan

Hirokazu Okayama

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

okayama@fmu.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Tract Surgery, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan

Yasuhide Kofunato

Roles Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic and Transplant Surgery, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan

Shun Chida

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Tract Surgery, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan

Katsuharu Saito

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Tract Surgery, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan

Takeshi Tada

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Tract Surgery, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan

Mai Ashizawa

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Tract Surgery, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan

Takahiro Nakajima

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Tract Surgery, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan

Keita Aoto

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Tract Surgery, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan

Tomohiro Kikuchi

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Tract Surgery, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan

Wataru Sakamoto

Roles Investigation, Resources, Validation

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Tract Surgery, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan

Hisahito Endo

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Tract Surgery, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan

Shotaro Fujita

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Tract Surgery, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan

Motonobu Saito

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Tract Surgery, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan

Tomoyuki Momma

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Tract Surgery, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan

Shinji Ohki

Roles Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Tract Surgery, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan

Koji Kono

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Tract Surgery, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.