About the Authors
- Teng-Fu Hsieh
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Contributed equally to this work with: Teng-Fu Hsieh, Yu-Wan Yang
Affiliations Department of Urology, Taichung Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualian, Taiwan
- Yu-Wan Yang
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Contributed equally to this work with: Teng-Fu Hsieh, Yu-Wan Yang
Affiliations Department of Neurology, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
- Shang-Sen Lee
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Affiliations Department of Urology, Taichung Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualian, Taiwan
- Tien-Huang Lin
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Affiliations Department of Urology, Taichung Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualian, Taiwan
- Hsin-Ho Liu
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Affiliations Department of Urology, Taichung Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualian, Taiwan
- Tsung-Hsun Tsai
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Affiliations Department of Urology, Taichung Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualian, Taiwan
- Chi-Cheng Chen
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Affiliations Department of Urology, Taichung Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualian, Taiwan
- Yung-Sung Huang
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* E-mail: solomons1117@yahoo.com.tw (YSH); hematcd@hotmail.com (CCL)
Affiliation Division of Neurology, Department of Internal Medicine, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Chiayi, Taiwan
- Ching-Chih Lee
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* E-mail: solomons1117@yahoo.com.tw (YSH); hematcd@hotmail.com (CCL)
Affiliations School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualian, Taiwan, Department of Otolaryngology, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Chiayi, Taiwan, Department of Education, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Chiayi, Taiwan, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Chiayi, Taiwan
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: TFH YWY YSH CCL. Performed the experiments: TFH YWY THT CCC CCL. Analyzed the data: TFH YWY SSL THL HHL YSH CCL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TFH YWY YSH CCL. Wrote the paper: TFH YWY CCL.