Maebayashi, Toshiya http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6302-1982
Ishibashi, Naoya
Aizawa, Takuya
Sakaguchi, Masakuni
Saito, Tsutomu
Kawamori, Jiro
Tanaka, Yoshiaki
Hirotani, Yukari
Homma, Taku
Article History
Received: 15 December 2018
Accepted: 5 February 2019
First Online: 12 February 2019
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: Ethical approval: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: This study was approved by the institutional review board, and patient informed consent was obtained. (Trial registration number: Nihon University Itabashi Hospital Clinical Research Center RK-170214-9).
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. Additional informed consent was obtained from all individual participants for whom identifying information is included in this article. Documentation of informed consent for treatment was signed by each patient and placed in the patient’s medical record.
: The dataset supporting the conclusions of this article is included within the article.
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