About the Authors
- Keisuke Saito
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Contributed equally to this work with: Keisuke Saito, Shin-ichi Hisasue
Affiliation Department of Urology, Teikyo University, School of Medicine, Kaga 2-11-1, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, 173–8605, Japan
- Shin-ichi Hisasue
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Contributed equally to this work with: Keisuke Saito, Shin-ichi Hisasue
Affiliation Department of Urology, Juntendo University, Graduate School of Medicine, Hongo 2-1-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113–0033, Japan
- Hisamitsu Ide
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¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Department of Urology, Teikyo University, School of Medicine, Kaga 2-11-1, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, 173–8605, Japan
- Hiroaki Aoki
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¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Department of Urology, Juntendo University, Graduate School of Medicine, Hongo 2-1-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113–0033, Japan
- Satoru Muto
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¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Department of Urology, Teikyo University, School of Medicine, Kaga 2-11-1, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, 173–8605, Japan
- Raizo Yamaguchi
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¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Department of Urology, Teikyo University, School of Medicine, Kaga 2-11-1, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, 173–8605, Japan
- Akira Tsujimura
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¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Department of Urology, Juntendo University, Graduate School of Medicine, Hongo 2-1-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113–0033, Japan
- Shigeo Horie
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* E-mail: shorie@juntendo.ac.jp
¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Department of Urology, Juntendo University, Graduate School of Medicine, Hongo 2-1-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113–0033, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: KS SIH HI SH. Performed the experiments: KS SM. Analyzed the data: SIH AT HA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KS SIH RY. Wrote the paper: KS SIH.