About the Authors

Takashi Kawahara

Contributed equally to this work with: Takashi Kawahara, Takahiro Kojima, Koji Mitsuzuka, Shintaro Narita, Osamu Ogawa, Mikio Sugimoto, Jun Miyazaki, Hiroyuki Nishiyama

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

Takahiro Kojima

Contributed equally to this work with: Takashi Kawahara, Takahiro Kojima, Koji Mitsuzuka, Shintaro Narita, Osamu Ogawa, Mikio Sugimoto, Jun Miyazaki, Hiroyuki Nishiyama

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

tkojima@md.tsukuba.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

Shuya Kandori

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

Masahiro Kurobe

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

Takayuki Yoshino

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

Tomokazu Kimura

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

Yoshiyuki Nagumo

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

Ryutaro Ishituka

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

Koji Mitsuzuka

Contributed equally to this work with: Takashi Kawahara, Takahiro Kojima, Koji Mitsuzuka, Shintaro Narita, Osamu Ogawa, Mikio Sugimoto, Jun Miyazaki, Hiroyuki Nishiyama

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Urology, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

Shintaro Narita

Contributed equally to this work with: Takashi Kawahara, Takahiro Kojima, Koji Mitsuzuka, Shintaro Narita, Osamu Ogawa, Mikio Sugimoto, Jun Miyazaki, Hiroyuki Nishiyama

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Urology, Graduate School of Medicine, Akita University, Akita, Japan

Takashi Kobayashi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Urology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Yoshiyuki Matsui

Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Urology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Osamu Ogawa

Contributed equally to this work with: Takashi Kawahara, Takahiro Kojima, Koji Mitsuzuka, Shintaro Narita, Osamu Ogawa, Mikio Sugimoto, Jun Miyazaki, Hiroyuki Nishiyama

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Urology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Mikio Sugimoto

Contributed equally to this work with: Takashi Kawahara, Takahiro Kojima, Koji Mitsuzuka, Shintaro Narita, Osamu Ogawa, Mikio Sugimoto, Jun Miyazaki, Hiroyuki Nishiyama

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan

Jun Miyazaki

Contributed equally to this work with: Takashi Kawahara, Takahiro Kojima, Koji Mitsuzuka, Shintaro Narita, Osamu Ogawa, Mikio Sugimoto, Jun Miyazaki, Hiroyuki Nishiyama

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Urology, School of Medicine, International University of Health and Welfare, Narita, Japan

Hiroyuki Nishiyama

Contributed equally to this work with: Takashi Kawahara, Takahiro Kojima, Koji Mitsuzuka, Shintaro Narita, Osamu Ogawa, Mikio Sugimoto, Jun Miyazaki, Hiroyuki Nishiyama

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

Affiliation Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.