Saito, Tomohiro http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2303-5401
Mizobuchi, Masahide
Kato, Tadashi
Suzuki, Taihei
Fujiwara, Yasuro
Kanamori, Naoaki
Makuuchi, Mikio
Honda, Hirokazu
Article History
Received: 14 July 2022
Accepted: 10 October 2022
First Online: 26 October 2022
Declarations
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: Tomohiro Saito, Masahide Mizobuchi, Tadashi Kato, Taihei Suzuki, Yasuro Fujiwara, Naoaki Kanamori, Mikio Makuuchi, and Hirokazu Honda declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The study protocol was approved by the ethical committee of the Showa University Hospital (No. 2896) and registered in the University Hospital Medical Information Network Clinical Trials Registry (UMIN-CTR ID: UMIN000039889). All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. All participants gave written informed consent. No animal studies were performed in the course of these experiments.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.