1. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan
2. Department of Hearing Implant Sciences, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan
3. Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Iwate Medical University, Morioka, Iwate, Japan
4. Departments of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata, Japan
5. Department of Otolaryngology, Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
6. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan