Shibao, Kazunori
Honda, Shinsaku
Adachi, Yasuhiro
Kohi, Shiro
Kudou, Yuzan
Matayoshi, Nobutaka
Sato, Nagahiro
Hirata, Keiji
Article History
Received: 31 May 2022
Accepted: 15 September 2022
First Online: 1 October 2022
Declarations
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: All procedures were conducted following the ethical standards of the respective committees on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and later versions. This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan.
: Dr. Kazunori Shibao has received a speaker honorarium from Ethicon Endosurgery and Medtronic plc. Dr. Keiji Hirata has received a personal fee from Ethicon Endosurgery and Medtronic plc. The other authors (Drs. Shinsaku Honda, Yasuhiro Adachi, Shiro Kohi, Yuzan Kudou, Nobutaka Matayoshi, and Nagahiro Sato) declare that they have no conflict of interest or financial ties to disclose.