Otsuki, Naoki https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9682-2548
Morita, Naruhiko
Furukawa, Tatsuya
Teshima, Masanori
Shinomiya, Hitomi
Shinomiya, Hirotaka
Nibu, Ken-ichi
Article History
Received: 15 March 2019
Accepted: 7 April 2019
First Online: 19 April 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All authors have no conflict of interests to be disclosed on this work.
: The study was conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and it later amendments. Ethical approval was obtained from the Ethics Committee of the Kobe University Hospital (#190195) prior to enrolment.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.