About the Authors

Vo Nguyen Trung

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Shiga University of Medical Science, Seta-Tsukinowa-cho, Otsu, Shiga, Japan

Hiroshi Yamamoto

yhiroshi@belle.shiga-med.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Shiga University of Medical Science, Seta-Tsukinowa-cho, Otsu, Shiga, Japan

Akira Furukawa

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Shiga University of Medical Science, Seta-Tsukinowa-cho, Otsu, Shiga, Japan

Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Shiga University of Medical Science, Seta-Tsukinowa-cho, Otsu, Shiga, Japan

Satoshi Murata

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Shiga University of Medical Science, Seta-Tsukinowa-cho, Otsu, Shiga, Japan

Masahiro Yoshimura

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Shiga University of Medical Science, Seta-Tsukinowa-cho, Otsu, Shiga, Japan

Yoko Murakami

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Shiga University of Medical Science, Seta-Tsukinowa-cho, Otsu, Shiga, Japan

Shigetaka Sato

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Shiga University of Medical Science, Seta-Tsukinowa-cho, Otsu, Shiga, Japan

Hideji Otani

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Shiga University of Medical Science, Seta-Tsukinowa-cho, Otsu, Shiga, Japan

Satoshi Ugi

Affiliation Department of Medicine Shiga University of Medical Science, Seta-Tsukinowa-cho, Otsu, Shiga, Japan

Katsutaro Morino

Affiliation Department of Medicine Shiga University of Medical Science, Seta-Tsukinowa-cho, Otsu, Shiga, Japan

Hiroshi Maegawa

Affiliation Department of Medicine Shiga University of Medical Science, Seta-Tsukinowa-cho, Otsu, Shiga, Japan

Tohru Tani

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Shiga University of Medical Science, Seta-Tsukinowa-cho, Otsu, Shiga, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HY AF SU. Performed the experiments: HY TY SM AF MY YM SS HO SU KM HM TT. Analyzed the data: VNT HY AF MY YM SS HO SU KM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VNT HY AF MY YM SS HO SU HM TT. Wrote the paper: VNT HY AF SU HM TT.