About the Authors

Kenichi Mochizuki

Contributed equally to this work with: Kenichi Mochizuki, Kazuki Kato

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Digestive Disease Center, Showa University Northern Yokohama Hospital, Yokohama, Japan, Department of Surgery, Kyushu University Beppu Hospital, Beppu, Japan

Shin-ei Kudo

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Digestive Disease Center, Showa University Northern Yokohama Hospital, Yokohama, Japan

Kazuki Kato

Contributed equally to this work with: Kenichi Mochizuki, Kazuki Kato

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Digestive Disease Center, Showa University Northern Yokohama Hospital, Yokohama, Japan, Department of Surgery, Kyushu University Beppu Hospital, Beppu, Japan

Koki Kudo

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Digestive Disease Center, Showa University Northern Yokohama Hospital, Yokohama, Japan

Yushi Ogawa

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Digestive Disease Center, Showa University Northern Yokohama Hospital, Yokohama, Japan

Yuta Kouyama

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Digestive Disease Center, Showa University Northern Yokohama Hospital, Yokohama, Japan

Yuki Takashina

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Digestive Disease Center, Showa University Northern Yokohama Hospital, Yokohama, Japan

Katsuro Ichimasa

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Digestive Disease Center, Showa University Northern Yokohama Hospital, Yokohama, Japan, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, National University Hospital, Singapore, Singapore

Taro Tobo

Roles Investigation

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

Takeo Toshima

Roles Methodology

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

Yuichi Hisamatsu

Roles Methodology

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

Yusuke Yonemura

Roles Methodology

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

Takaaki Masuda

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology

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

Hideyuki Miyachi

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Digestive Disease Center, Showa University Northern Yokohama Hospital, Yokohama, Japan

Fumio Ishida

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Digestive Disease Center, Showa University Northern Yokohama Hospital, Yokohama, Japan

Tetsuo Nemoto

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Pathology, School of Medicine, Showa University, Yokohama Northern Hospital, Kanagawa, Japan

Koshi Mimori

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

mimori.koshi.791@m.kyushu-u.ac.jp

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.