About the Authors

Teppei Miyakawa

Contributed equally to this work with: Teppei Miyakawa, Hidetaka Kawamura

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

tpsundaysilence@yahoo.co.jp

Affiliations Department of Minimally Invasive Surgical and Medical Oncology, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Fukushima, Japan, Department of Surgical Oncology, Southern Tohoku General Hospital, Southern Tohoku Research Institute for Neuroscience, Koriyama, Fukushima, Japan

Hidetaka Kawamura

Contributed equally to this work with: Teppei Miyakawa, Hidetaka Kawamura

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Minimally Invasive Surgical and Medical Oncology, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Fukushima, Japan, Department of Surgical Oncology, Southern Tohoku General Hospital, Southern Tohoku Research Institute for Neuroscience, Koriyama, Fukushima, Japan

Michitaka Honda

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Minimally Invasive Surgical and Medical Oncology, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Fukushima, Japan, Department of Surgical Oncology, Southern Tohoku General Hospital, Southern Tohoku Research Institute for Neuroscience, Koriyama, Fukushima, Japan

Yoshinao Takano

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgical Oncology, Southern Tohoku General Hospital, Southern Tohoku Research Institute for Neuroscience, Koriyama, Fukushima, Japan

Shunji Kinuta

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, The Takeda Healthcare Foundation Takeda General Hospital, Aizu Wakamatsu, Fukushima, Japan

Takahiro Kamiga

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Shirakawa Kosei General Hospital, Shirakawa, Fukushima, Japan

Shigeru Yamazaki

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Ohta Nishinouchi Hospital, Koriyama, Fukushima, Japan

Atsushi Muto

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Fukushima Rosai Hospital, Iwaki, Fukushima, Japan

Satoru Shiraso

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Iwaki Kyoritsu General Hospital, Iwaki, Fukushima, Japan

Naoyuki Yamashita

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Tsuboi Hospital, Koriyama, Fukushima, Japan

Toshiyasu Iwao

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Aidu Chuo Hospital, Aizu Wakamatsu, Fukushima, Japan

Koji Kono

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Tract Surgery, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Fukushima, Japan

Shinichi Konno

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, School Medicine, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.