About the Authors

Daisuke Noguchi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Naohisa Kuriyama

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

naokun@med.mie-u.ac.jp

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

Yuji Kozuka

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan

Haruna Komatubara

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

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

Tatsuya Sakamoto

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

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

Takahiro Ito

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

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

Aoi Hayasaki

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

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

Yusuke Iizawa

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

Takehiro Fujii

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

Akihiro Tanemura

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

Yasuhiro Murata

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

Masashi Kishiwada

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

Shugo Mizuno

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.