About the Authors

Kyosuke Matsuzaki

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Urology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Kazutoshi Fujita

Roles Writing – review & editing

kazufujita2@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Urology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Yujiro Hayashi

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Urology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Makoto Matsushita

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Urology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Satoshi Nojima

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Kentaro Jingushi

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Therapeutic Urologic Oncology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Taigo Kato

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Urology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Atsunari Kawashima

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Urology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Takeshi Ujike

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Urology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Akira Nagahara

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Urology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Motohide Uemura

Roles Supervision

Affiliations Department of Urology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan, Department of Therapeutic Urologic Oncology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Ryoichi Imamura

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Urology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Seiji Yamaguchi

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Urology, Osaka General Medical Center, Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka, Japan

Hiroaki Fushimi

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Osaka General Medical Center, Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka, Japan

Hiroshi Miyamoto

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Departments of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Urology, and Oncology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Eiichi Morii

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Norio Nonomura

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Urology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.