About the Authors

Kensuke Uraguchi

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Yukihide Maeda

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

yamayuki@cc.okayama-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Junko Takahara

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Ryotaro Omichi

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Shohei Fujimoto

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Shin Kariya

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Kazunori Nishizaki

Roles Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Mizuo Ando

Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.