Makino, Yohsuke http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0025-5252
Kojima, Masatoshi
Yoshida, Maiko
Motomura, Ayumi
Inokuchi, Go
Chiba, Fumiko
Torimitsu, Suguru
Hoshioka, Yumi
Yamaguchi, Rutsuko
Saito, Naoki
Urabe, Shumari
Tsuneya, Shigeki
Horikoshi, Takuro
Yajima, Daisuke
Iwase, Hirotaro
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JP16H06242 and JP26870102)
Article History
Received: 2 December 2018
Accepted: 26 July 2019
First Online: 2 August 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
: This retrospective study was approved by the ethics committee of Chiba University (approved July 22, 2011, No. 1195). According to the Japanese Protection Guideline of Personal Information on Research Publication in Legal Medicine, this study was considered to have provided sufficient protection of privacy of the patients and their family, so we did not require informed consent from the next of kin.
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.