About the Authors

I-How Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: I-How Chen, Shiang-Fu Huang

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University, Taiwan, ROC

Chun-Ta Liao

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University, Taiwan, ROC

Hung-Ming Wang

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, ROC

Jung-Ju Huang

Affiliation Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Linkou Medical Center and Chang Gung University, Taiwan, ROC

Chung-Jan Kang

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University, Taiwan, ROC

Shiang-Fu Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: I-How Chen, Shiang-Fu Huang

Shiangfu.huang@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University, Taiwan, ROC

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IHC SFH. Performed the experiments: IHC SFH. Analyzed the data: SFH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IHC CTL CJK SFH. Wrote the paper: IHC SFH. Data acquisition: CTL HMW JJH CJK.