About the Authors

Yoshiro Imai

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

yoshiro.imai@ompu.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of General and Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Takatsuki, Osaka, Japan

Yusuke Suzuki

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of General and Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Takatsuki, Osaka, Japan

Mitsuhiro Asakuma

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of General and Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Takatsuki, Osaka, Japan

Yoshiharu Miyamoto

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of General and Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Takatsuki, Osaka, Japan

Hideki Tomiyama

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of General and Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Takatsuki, Osaka, Japan

Sang-Woong Lee

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of General and Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Takatsuki, Osaka, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.