About the Authors

Ken-ichi Tabata

ktabata@med.kitasato-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Urology, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

Kazumasa Matsumoto

Affiliation Department of Urology, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

Sho Minami

Affiliation Department of Applied Tumor Pathology, Kitasato University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kanagawa, Japan

Daisuke Ishii

Affiliation Department of Urology, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

Morihiro Nishi

Affiliation Department of Urology, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

Tetsuo Fujita

Affiliation Department of Urology, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

Makoto Saegusa

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

Yuichi Sato

Affiliation Department of Applied Tumor Pathology, Kitasato University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kanagawa, Japan

Masatsugu Iwamura

Affiliation Department of Urology, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KT KM MS MI. Performed the experiments: SM MN YS. Analyzed the data: DI TF. Wrote the paper: KT.