About the Authors

Fumiaki Watanabe

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Amanuma-cho, Omiya-ku, Saitama, Japan

Koichi Suzuki

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ksuzubnhm@yahoo.co.jp

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Amanuma-cho, Omiya-ku, Saitama, Japan

Sawako Tamaki

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Amanuma-cho, Omiya-ku, Saitama, Japan

Iku Abe

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Amanuma-cho, Omiya-ku, Saitama, Japan

Yuhei Endo

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Amanuma-cho, Omiya-ku, Saitama, Japan

Yuji Takayama

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Amanuma-cho, Omiya-ku, Saitama, Japan

Hideki Ishikawa

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Amanuma-cho, Omiya-ku, Saitama, Japan

Nao Kakizawa

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Amanuma-cho, Omiya-ku, Saitama, Japan

Masaaki Saito

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Amanuma-cho, Omiya-ku, Saitama, Japan

Kazushige Futsuhara

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Amanuma-cho, Omiya-ku, Saitama, Japan

Hiroshi Noda

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Amanuma-cho, Omiya-ku, Saitama, Japan

Fumio Konishi

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Nerima Hikarigaoka Hospital, Hikarigaoka, Nerima-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Toshiki Rikiyama

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Amanuma-cho, Omiya-ku, Saitama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.