Muto, Mitsuru
Sugita, Koshiro
Murakami, Masakazu
Ikoma, Shinichiro
Kawano, Masato
Masuya, Ryuta
Matsukubo, Makoto
Kawano, Takafumi
Machigashira, Seiro
Nakame, Kazuhiko
Torikai, Motofumi
Ikee, Takamasa
Noguchi, Hiroyuki
Ibara, Satoshi
Ieiri, Satoshi
Article History
Accepted: 5 February 2023
First Online: 15 February 2023
Declarations
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: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare with regard to this article.
: This study was performed in accordance with the Ethical Guidelines for Medical and Health Research Involving Human Subjects by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan in 2014 and in compliance with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki (revised in 2013). Patient data were collected with the blinding of personal information and registered using consecutive patient numbers. This study was approved by the local ethics committee of our institution (2019–29).