Kim, Hyun Kyung
Suh, Eun Jung
Cho, SiHyun
Choi, Young Sik
Kim, Sinyoung
Park, Joo Hyun https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6388-5975
Funding for this research was provided by:
Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2017R1D1A1B03036168)
Multi-Ministerial Research Project, Republic of Korea (HX23C1706)
Article History
Received: 16 January 2025
Revised: 30 May 2025
Accepted: 20 July 2025
First Online: 14 November 2025
Declarations
:
: Joo Hyun Park, Hyun Kyung Kim, and Sin Young Kim are inventors on a pending Korean patent application related to this work (Korean Patent Application No. 10-2025-0129929, filed 11 September 2025), assigned to Yonsei University Industry–Academic Cooperation Foundation. As of the date of submission, the authors have not received any royalties, license fees, equity, or other financial benefits arising from this intellectual property, and no personal commercial agreements related to it are in place. The authors declare no other competing interests.
: This study was conducted under the authorization of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of Severance Hospital (IRB No. 9-2021-0040). Informed consent was obtained from five patients undergoing benign hysterectomies prior to their enrollment in this study.