About the Authors

Hiroshi Kitoh

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

hkitoh420@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Aichi Children’s Health and Medical Center, Obu, Aichi, Japan, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Masaki Matsushita

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Kenichi Mishima

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Tadashi Nagata

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Yasunari Kamiya

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Kohei Ueda

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Advanced Medicine, Nagoya University Hospital, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Yachiyo Kuwatsuka

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Advanced Medicine, Nagoya University Hospital, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Hiroshi Morikawa

Roles Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliation Ina Research Inc, Ina, Nagano, Japan

Yasuhiro Nakai

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Advanced Medicine, Nagoya University Hospital, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Naoki Ishiguro

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Competing Interests

Hiroshi Morikawa is an employee of a commercial company (Ina Research Inc.), but the company provided support in the form of salaries for HM, and did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. This commercial affiliation does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.