1. Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery; Kaohsiung Medical University (KMU); Kaohsiung Taiwan
2. Faculty of Medicine; Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, and Department of Respiratory Therapy, College of Medicine, KMU; Kaohsiung Taiwan
3. Department of Anesthesiology; Kaohsiung Medical University (KMU)
4. Department of Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery; China-Japan Union Hospital, Jilin University & Jilin Provincial Key Laboratory of Surgical Translational Medicine; Changchun Jilin
5. Department of Surgery; the 2nd Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine; Zhejiang
6. Department of Thyroid Surgery; the first Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University; Henan China
7. Department of Nursing; Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University (KMU); Kaohsiung Taiwan
8. Department of Surgery; Korea University College of Medicine (h.y.k.); Seoul Korea
9. Endocrine Surgery Research Center; Department of Surgical Sciences and Human Morphology; University of Insubria; Varese-Como Varese Italy