Nakano, Eri
Ota, Toru
Jingami, Yoko
Nakata, Isao
Hayashi, Hisako
Yamashiro, Kenji http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9354-8558
Article History
Received: 17 September 2018
Revised: 8 May 2019
Accepted: 10 June 2019
First Online: 22 June 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Eri Nakano declares that she has no conflict of interest. Toru Ota declares that he has no conflict of interest. Yoko Jingami declares that she has no conflict of interest. Isao Nakata declares that he has no conflict of interest. Hisako Hayashi declares that she has no conflict of interest. Kenji Yamashiro declares that he has no conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional review board of Otsu Red Cross Hospital and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was not obtained from the participants included in the study according to the opt-out policy without informed consent for retrospective studies by institutional review board of Otsu Red Cross Hospital.