1. Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery and Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
2. Department of Faculty of Medicine, College of Medicine, and Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
3. Division of Thyroid and Parathyroid Endocrine Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
4. Department of Otology and Laryngology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
5. Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
6. Division for Endocrine and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Department of Human Pathology in Adulthood and Childhood “G. Barresi,” University Hospital G. Martino, University of Messina, Sicily, Italy.
7. Department of Surgery, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
8. Department of Laboratory Animal Center, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
9. Department of Anesthesiology, Kaohsiung Municipal Hsiao-Kang Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.