About the Authors

Katsuhiro Yoshikawa

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

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Clinical Laboratory, Kansai Medical University, Osaka, Japan, Department of Surgery, Kansai Medical University, Osaka, Japan

Mitsuaki Ishida

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

ishidamt@hirakata.kmu.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Clinical Laboratory, Kansai Medical University, Osaka, Japan

Hirotsugu Yanai

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Kansai Medical University, Osaka, Japan

Koji Tsuta

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Clinical Laboratory, Kansai Medical University, Osaka, Japan

Mitsugu Sekimoto

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Kansai Medical University, Osaka, Japan

Tomoharu Sugie

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Kansai Medical University, Osaka, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.