Kumamoto, Tsutomu
Kurahashi, Yasunori
Haruta, Shusuke
Niwa, Hirotaka
Nakanishi, Yasutaka
Ozawa, Rie
Okumura, Koichi
Ishida, Yoshinori
Shinohara, Hisashi
Article History
Received: 6 September 2018
Accepted: 25 February 2019
First Online: 23 March 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The institutional review boards of Toranomon Hospital and Hyogo College of Medicine Hospital approved the research protocol.
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: 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 obtained from all individual participants included in the study.