About the Authors

Kotaro Honda

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

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

Sang-Woong Lee

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

sang-woong.lee@ompu.ac.jp

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

Masaru Kawai

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Hirakata City Hospital, Osaka, Japan

Ryo Tanaka

Roles Data curation

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

Yoshiro Imai

Roles Data curation

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

Kentaro Matsuo

Roles Data curation

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

Kazuhisa Uchiyama

Roles Supervision

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.