About the Authors
- Hiroshi Kitoh
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Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: 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
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Roles Data curation, Investigation
Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
- Kenichi Mishima
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Roles Data curation, Investigation
Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
- Tadashi Nagata
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Roles Investigation
Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
- Yasunari Kamiya
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Roles Investigation
Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
- Kohei Ueda
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Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Advanced Medicine, Nagoya University Hospital, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
- Yachiyo Kuwatsuka
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Roles Formal analysis, Methodology
Affiliation Department of Advanced Medicine, Nagoya University Hospital, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
- Hiroshi Morikawa
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Roles Formal analysis, Validation
Affiliation Ina Research Inc, Ina, Nagano, Japan
- Yasuhiro Nakai
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Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Advanced Medicine, Nagoya University Hospital, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
- Naoki Ishiguro
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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.