About the Authors

Mutsumi Kenmochi

Contributed equally to this work with: Mutsumi Kenmochi, Kentaro Ochi, Hirotsugu Kinoshita, Yasuhiro Miyamoto, Izumi Koizuka

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan

Kentaro Ochi

Contributed equally to this work with: Mutsumi Kenmochi, Kentaro Ochi, Hirotsugu Kinoshita, Yasuhiro Miyamoto, Izumi Koizuka

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

k2ochi@w6.dion.ne.jp

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan

Hirotsugu Kinoshita

Contributed equally to this work with: Mutsumi Kenmochi, Kentaro Ochi, Hirotsugu Kinoshita, Yasuhiro Miyamoto, Izumi Koizuka

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan

Yasuhiro Miyamoto

Contributed equally to this work with: Mutsumi Kenmochi, Kentaro Ochi, Hirotsugu Kinoshita, Yasuhiro Miyamoto, Izumi Koizuka

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan

Izumi Koizuka

Contributed equally to this work with: Mutsumi Kenmochi, Kentaro Ochi, Hirotsugu Kinoshita, Yasuhiro Miyamoto, Izumi Koizuka

Roles Investigation, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.