Muta, Yuki http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5812-7165
Odaka, Akio
Inoue, Seiichiro
Takeuchi, Yuta
Beck, Yoshifumi
Article History
Accepted: 9 August 2021
First Online: 23 August 2021
Declarations
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: The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments. The approval for this study was obtained from the Research Ethics Committee of Saitama Medical Center, Saitama Medical University (no. 2270).
: The need for informed consent was waived in view of the retrospective and observational nature of the study. We obtained consent in an opt-out manner on our institute website.