Honda, Eisaburo
Utsunomiya, Hajime
Hatakeyama, Akihisa
Nakashima, Hirotaka
Suzuki, Hitoshi
Matsuda, Dean K.
Sakai, Akinori
Uchida, Soshi http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5975-8276
Article History
Received: 30 October 2018
Accepted: 24 April 2019
First Online: 7 May 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: One or more of the authors have declared the following potential conflict of interest of source of funding. S.U. is a consultant for Smith & Nephew and Zimmer-Biomet and receive research fund from Smith & Nephew and Stryker. D.K.M is a consultant for Zimmer-Biomet. Each author certifies that he has no commercial associations (e.g., consultancies, stock ownership, equity interest, patent/licensing arrangements, etc.) that might pose a conflict of interest in connection with the submitted article.
: This study was approved by institutional review board (University of Occupational and Enviornmental Health, approval number: H29-004).
: The informed consent has been obtained from the patient. The patient approved the use obtained from his or her data for publication of this manuscript.