Abe, Hayato
Midorikawa, Yutaka
Matsumoto, Naoki
Moriyama, Mitsuhiko
Shibutani, Kazu
Okada, Masahiro
Udagawa, Seiichi
Tsuji, Shingo
Takayama, Tadatoshi
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (18hk0102049s0301)
A grant-in-aid of the 106th Annual Congress of JSS Memorial Surgical Research Fund
Article History
Received: 24 October 2018
Revised: 5 April 2019
Accepted: 8 April 2019
First Online: 30 April 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Tadatoshi Takayama, Department of Digestive Surgery, Nihon University School of Medicine.
: The authors of this manuscript declare no relationships with any companies, whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article.
: One of the authors has significant statistical expertise.No complex statistical methods were necessary for this paper.
: Written informed consent was waived by the Institutional Review Board.
: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained.
: • prospective• diagnostic or prognostic study• performed at one institution