About the Authors

Qingjiang Hu

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

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Kyushu University Beppu Hospital, Beppu, Japan, Department of Surgery and Science, Kyushu University Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan

Takaaki Masuda

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Kyushu University Beppu Hospital, Beppu, Japan

Shotaro Kuramitsu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Kyushu University Beppu Hospital, Beppu, Japan

Taro Tobo

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Kyushu University Beppu Hospital, Beppu, Japan

Kuniaki Sato

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Kyushu University Beppu Hospital, Beppu, Japan

Shinya Kidogami

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Kyushu University Beppu Hospital, Beppu, Japan

Sho Nambara

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Kyushu University Beppu Hospital, Beppu, Japan

Masami Ueda

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Kyushu University Beppu Hospital, Beppu, Japan

Yusuke Tsuruda

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Kyushu University Beppu Hospital, Beppu, Japan

Yosuke Kuroda

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Kyushu University Beppu Hospital, Beppu, Japan

Shuhei Ito

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Kyushu University Beppu Hospital, Beppu, Japan

Eiji Oki

Roles Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Department of Surgery and Science, Kyushu University Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan

Masaki Mori

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Surgery and Science, Kyushu University Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan

Koshi Mimori

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

kmimori@beppu.kyushu-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Kyushu University Beppu Hospital, Beppu, Japan

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the author (Koshi Mimori) of this manuscript has the following competing interests: [Eli Lilly Japan K.K. Grant]. No authors of this manuscript received funding in the form of salary. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. There were no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare in this study.