About the Authors

Akira Inoue

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

inoue_medical@yahoo.co.jp

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka General Medical Center, Osaka, Japan

Yoshihiro Morimoto

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

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka General Medical Center, Osaka, Japan

Yujiro Nishizawa

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

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka General Medical Center, Osaka, Japan

Masahiro Hashimoto

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

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka General Medical Center, Osaka, Japan

Yuki Ozato

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

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka General Medical Center, Osaka, Japan

Kenta Furukawa

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka General Medical Center, Osaka, Japan

Masashi Hirota

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka General Medical Center, Osaka, Japan

Yasuhiro Miyazaki

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

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka General Medical Center, Osaka, Japan

Akira Tomokuni

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

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka General Medical Center, Osaka, Japan

Masaaki Motoori

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka General Medical Center, Osaka, Japan

Kazumasa Fujitani

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka General Medical Center, Osaka, Japan

Competing Interests

This study is supported by a research grant from the Takeda Science Foundation. The authors declare that the funder had no role in the conceptualization, design, data collection, analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.