About the Authors

Hsiang-Chen Hsieh

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Chun-Li Wang

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Family Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Chuan-Shu Chen

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliations Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Cheng-Kuang Yang

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Jian-Ri Li

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

Affiliations Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Medicine and Nursing, Hungkuang University, Taichung, Taiwan

Shian-Shiang Wang

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Medicine and Nursing, Hungkuang University, Taichung, Taiwan

Chen-Li Cheng

Roles Methodology

Affiliations Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Chia-Yen Lin

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

lcyhank.tw@gmail.com (CYL); chiu37782002@yahoo.com (KYC)

Affiliations Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Kun-Yuan Chiu

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

lcyhank.tw@gmail.com (CYL); chiu37782002@yahoo.com (KYC)

Affiliations Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Applied Chemistry, National Chi Nan University, Nantou, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.