Kitagawa, Hiroshi
Manabe, Tatsuya
Yamada, Yasutaka
Sato, Hirofumi
Takesue, Shin
Hiraki, Masatsugu
Kawaguchi, Atsushi
Sakaguchi, Yoshiro
Noshiro, Hirokazu
Article History
Accepted: 9 December 2023
First Online: 29 December 2023
Declarations
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: All procedures in this study were conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human studies and with the Declaration of Helsinki and later revision. This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Saga University (Number: 2018–04-01) and was registered with the University Hospital Medical Information Network Center (UMIN) Clinical Trial Registry as UMIN000038472. This manuscript adheres to relevant CONSORT guidelines. Informed consent for the use of medical information was obtained from all the patients.
: All patients gave their written informed consent more than 2 days before surgery.
: Patient demographics were obtained from a prospectively maintained, comprehensive database and medical records.
: The authors declare no competing interests.