About the Authors

Hae-Dong Jang

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors contributed equally to this study as the co-first authors.

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Soonchunhyang University Hospital, Bucheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Jin-Sung Park

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

‡ These authors contributed equally to this study as the co-first authors.

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Korea University Hospital, Ansan, Danwon-gu, Ansan-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Dae Woong Kim

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Soonchunhyang University Hospital, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, South Korea

Kyungdo Han

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, College of Medicine, Catholic University, Jongno-gu, Seoul, South Korea

Byung-Joon Shin

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

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Soonchunhyang University Hospital, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, South Korea

Jae Chul Lee

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Soonchunhyang University Hospital, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, South Korea

Sung-Woo Choi

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Soonchunhyang University Hospital, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, South Korea

Seung-Woo Suh

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Scoliosis Research Institute, Department of Orthopedics, Korea University Medical College, Guro Hospital, Guro-gu, Seoul, South Korea

Jae-Hyuk Yang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Scoliosis Research Institute, Department of Orthopedics, Korea University Medical College, Guro Hospital, Guro-gu, Seoul, South Korea

Si-Young Park

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Korea University, College of Medicine, Anam Hospital, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, South Korea

Whi Je Cho

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Soonchunhyang University Hospital, Bucheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Jae-Young Hong

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

osspine@korea.ac.kr

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Korea University Hospital, Ansan, Danwon-gu, Ansan-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.