Sakurai, Keita http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8849-7335
Morimoto, Satoru
Oguri, Takuya
Yuasa, Hiroyuki
Uchida, Yuto
Yamada, Kentaro
Muto, Masahiro
Saito, Yufuko
Aiba, Ikuko
Takao, Masaki
Inui, Shohei
Toyoda, Keiko
Yamamoto, Asako
Utsunomiya, Hidetsuna
Oba, Hiroshi
Tokumaru, Aya.M
Nakagawa, Motoo
Hashizume, Yoshio
Yoshida, Mari
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Kakenhi Wakate B, 16K19839)
Article History
Received: 16 July 2019
Accepted: 29 August 2019
First Online: 13 September 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: We declare that all human and animal studies have been approved by the Ethics Committee for Clinical Research of the Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Tosei General Hospital, Nagoya City East Medical Center, Fukushimura Hospital, Higashi Nagoya National Hospital, and Mihara Memorial Hospital, and have therefore been performed in accordance with the ethical standards laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments.
: Due to the study nature evaluating pathologically confirmed patients, it was difficult to acquire the informed consent from all patients. Therefore, with the permission of IRB, we provided the opportunity to opt out for bereaved families of these patients.