About the Authors

Po-Chieh Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Po-Chieh Huang, Li-Hua Huang

Roles Writing – original draft

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

Li-Hua Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Po-Chieh Huang, Li-Hua Huang

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Tungs’ Taichung Metro Harbor Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Cheng-Kuang Yang

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Urology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Medicine and Nursing, Hungkuang University, Taichung, Taiwan

Jian-Ri Li

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Validation

Affiliations Department of Urology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Medicine and Nursing, Hungkuang University, Taichung, Taiwan

Chuan-Shu Chen

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliations Department of Urology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Shian-Shiang Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

Affiliations Department of Urology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Applied Chemistry, National Chi Nan University, Nantou, Taiwan

Kun-Yuan Chiu

Roles Resources

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

Yen-Chuan Ou

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

lcyhank.tw@gmail.com (CYL); ycou228@gmail.com (YCO)

Affiliation Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Tungs’ Taichung Metro Harbor Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Chia-Yen Lin

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

lcyhank.tw@gmail.com (CYL); ycou228@gmail.com (YCO)

Affiliations Department of Urology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.