About the Authors

Kenshirou Kunii

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Urology, Kanazawa Medical University, Kahoku, Ishikawa, Japan

Shigeru Sugiki

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Urology, Kanazawa Medical University, Kahoku, Ishikawa, Japan

Chiharuko Ushimoto

Roles Validation

Affiliation Department of Urology, Kanazawa Medical University, Kahoku, Ishikawa, Japan

Shinya Inoue

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Urology, Kanazawa Medical University, Kahoku, Ishikawa, Japan

Nobuyo Morita

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Urology, Kanazawa Medical University, Kahoku, Ishikawa, Japan

Yuka Nakamura

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Medical Research Institute, Kanazawa Medical University, Kahoku, Ishikawa, Japan

Tetsuhiro Horie

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical Research Institute, Kanazawa Medical University, Kahoku, Ishikawa, Japan

Takuya Sakamoto

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Medical Research Institute, Kanazawa Medical University, Kahoku, Ishikawa, Japan

Hiromi Sakata-Haga

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Anatomy I, Kanazawa Medical University, Kahoku, Ishikawa, Japan

Jia Han

Roles Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Clinical Pathology, Kanazawa Medical University, Kahoku, Ishikawa, Japan

Toshihisa Hatta

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Anatomy I, Kanazawa Medical University, Kahoku, Ishikawa, Japan

Yasuhito Ishigaki

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration

Affiliation Medical Research Institute, Kanazawa Medical University, Kahoku, Ishikawa, Japan

Sohsuke Yamada

Roles Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Clinical Pathology, Kanazawa Medical University, Kahoku, Ishikawa, Japan

Katsuhito Miyazawa

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision

miyazawa@kanazawa-med.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Urology, Kanazawa Medical University, Kahoku, Ishikawa, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.