Kihara, Atsushi MD*; Amano, Yusuke DDS, PhD*; Yoshimoto, Taichiro MD, PhD*; Matsubara, Daisuke MD, PhD*; Fukushima, Noriyoshi MD, PhD*; Fujiwara, Hiroyuki MD, PhD†; Niki, Toshiro MD, PhD*
Departments of *Pathology
†Obstetrics and Gynecology, Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan
All the authors contributed considerably to this manuscript. A.K.: conceived and designed the study. A.K. and T.N.: performed experiments and analyzed data. A.K., Y.A., T.Y., and D.M.: performed pathological and statistical analyses. H.F.: provided clinical information. A.K. and T.N.: wrote the manuscript with contributions from all the other authors. T.N. and N.F.: supervised all the procedures of this study. All authors approved the submitted manuscript.
Conflicts of Interest and Source of Funding: The authors have disclosed that they have no significant relationships with, or financial interest in, any commercial companies pertaining to this article.
Correspondence: Atsushi Kihara, MD, Department of Pathology, Jichi Medical University, 3311-1, Yakushiji, Shimotsuke city, Tochigi 329-0498, Japan (e-mail: [email protected]).
