Authors’ Contributions:
First author:
Jun Young Ko, MD
Initial investigation with clinical care and work-up; writing original draft and preparation; data acquisition and analysis.
Second author:
Jeong Jae Lee, MS, PT
Investigation; clinical evaluation and work-up; acquisition and interpretation of data; reviewing of final manuscript.
Co-author:
Mi rim Lee, MD
Clinical care and work-up; drafting original write-up; administration; proofreading.
Co-author:
Yong Kyun Kim, MD, PhD
Project administration and support with supervision of the clinical aspects; reviewing and editing.
Senior and Corresponding author:
Seungbok Lee, MD, MPH
Conceptualization and design; supervision with provision of resources; manuscript drafting, reviewing and final editing with technical language, proofreading.
All aforementioned authors participated sufficiently in the presented work; the authors have read and agreed to the final approval of the manuscript to be published.
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