About the Authors

Yoshiaki Inuzuka

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan

Kunio Mizutari

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

tari@mbf.ocn.ne.jp

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

Takaomi Kurioka

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan, Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

Jun Suzuki

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Yutaka Koizumi

Roles Methodology, Resources, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata, Yamagata, Japan

Koji Araki

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan

Akihiro Shiotani

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.