About the Authors

Koki Maeda

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Pancreatic and Transplant Surgery, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Naohisa Kuriyama

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

naokun@med.mie-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Pancreatic and Transplant Surgery, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Daisuke Noguchi

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Pancreatic and Transplant Surgery, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Takahiro Ito

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Pancreatic and Transplant Surgery, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Kazuyuki Gyoten

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Pancreatic and Transplant Surgery, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Aoi Hayasaki

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Pancreatic and Transplant Surgery, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Takehiro Fujii

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Pancreatic and Transplant Surgery, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Yusuke Iizawa

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Pancreatic and Transplant Surgery, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Yasuhiro Murata

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Pancreatic and Transplant Surgery, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Akihiro Tanemura

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Pancreatic and Transplant Surgery, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Masashi Kishiwada

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Pancreatic and Transplant Surgery, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Shugo Mizuno

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Pancreatic and Transplant Surgery, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.