Uemura, Akinori https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9050-7363
Arimura, Noboru
Yamakiri, Keita
Fujiwara, Kazuki
Furue, Eri
Sakamoto, Taiji
Article History
Received: 10 February 2021
Revised: 20 March 2021
Accepted: 1 April 2021
First Online: 20 April 2021
Declarations
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: This study was conducted with the approval of the institutional review board (IRB) of the Kagoshima City Hospital. 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.
: Informed consent was not necessary for the analysis of the medical records due to the retrospective design of the study.
: The authors declare no competing interests.