1 Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan. Electronic address: [email protected].
2 Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan.
3 Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.
4 Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan.
5 Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Akita University, Graduate School of Medicine, Akita, Japan.
6 Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan.
7 Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
8 Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan.
9 Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Osaka Habikino Medical Center, Osaka Prefectural Hospital Organization, Osaka, Japan.
10 Division of Molecular Epidemiology, Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.