Funao, Haruki
Isogai, Norihiro
Ito, Keitaro
Mizukoshi, Ryo
Sasao, Yutaka
Ishii, Ken
Yagi, Mitsuru
Article History
Received: 29 December 2025
Revised: 21 March 2026
Accepted: 25 March 2026
First Online: 8 April 2026
Declarations
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: The authors declare that the article content was composed in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
: This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of our institution (Approval No. 5-19-21) and was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: We obtained the written consent from the patients.
: The device(s)/drug(s) is/are FDA-approved or approved by a corresponding national agency for this indication. This work has not been previously published elsewhere.