About the Authors

Yasuhisa Yoshida

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan

Hidenori Matsubara

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

ortho331@yahoo.co.jp

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan

Xiang Fang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan

Katsuhiro Hayashi

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan

Issei Nomura

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan

Shuhei Ugaji

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan

Tomo Hamada

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan

Hiroyuki Tsuchiya

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

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.