About the Authors

Naohiro Wakisaka

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

wakisaka@med.kanazawa-u.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology, NHO Kanazawa Medical Center, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan, Division of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

Makiko Moriyama-Kita

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Division of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

Satoru Kondo

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

Eiji Kobayashi

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

Takayoshi Ueno

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

Yosuke Nakanishi

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

Kazuhira Endo

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

Hisashi Sugimoto

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

Tomokazu Yoshizaki

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.