About the Authors

Naohiro Ueda

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

nueda@sapmed.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

Takatoshi Yotsuyanagi

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

Ken Yamashita

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

Hidekane Yoshimura

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan

Yutaka Takumi

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan

Masahiro Takahashi

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

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, International University of Health and Welfare Mita Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Satoshi Iwasaki

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, International University of Health and Welfare Mita Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Shunsuke Yuzuriha

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan

Shin-ichi Usami

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Hearing Implant Sciences, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.