Tateishi, Satoshi
Onishi, Yasuo
Suzuki, Hitoshi
Takahashi, Makoto
Shiraishi, Junichiro
Larson, Christopher M.
Uchida, Soshi http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5975-8276
Article History
Received: 8 October 2017
Accepted: 21 June 2018
First Online: 28 June 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: One of the authors (S.U) is a consultant for Smith & Nephew and Zimmer-Biomet and receives research fund from Smith & Nephew and Stryker. CL is a consultant for Smith & Nephew and A3 surgical. This article is not related to any funds. Each author certifies that he has no commercial associations (e.g, consultancies, stock ownership, equity interest, patent/licencing arrangements, etc.) that might pose a conflict of interest in connection with the submitted article.
: Approval for the study was granted through the institutional review board IRB (University of Occupational and Environmental Health, approval number: H28-097).
: This study has been obtained from all study patients. Each patient approved of the use of his or her data for the publication of this manuscript.