Kobayashi, Go
Sekino, Yohei
Hayashi, Tetsutaro
Nakahara, Hikaru
Kobatake, Kohei
Kitano, Hiroyuki
Goto, Keisuke
Niitsu, Hiroaki
Hinoi, Takao
Sentani, Kazuhiro
Hinata, Nobuyuki
Funding for this research was provided by:
Hiroshima University
Article History
Received: 28 September 2025
Accepted: 1 February 2026
First Online: 13 February 2026
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no conflict of interest in association with the present study.
: This retrospective study was approved by the Ethics Committee at Hiroshima University (authorization number: E20001-9923). This investigation was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki of 1975.
: Informed consent was obtained from each patient.