Inoue, Keisuke
Hatano, Kiichi
Hanamatsu, Yuki
Saigo, Chiemi
Kito, Yusuke
Bunai, Katsuaki
Shibata, Toshiyuki
Takeuchi, Tamotsu http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4264-3632
Funding for this research was provided by:
KAKEN (15K08361, 15K19051, 17K15642)
Article History
Received: 27 September 2018
Accepted: 4 January 2019
First Online: 11 January 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
:
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The present study was conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of the Helsinki Declaration in 1975, after approval of the Institutional Review Board of the Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine (specific approval number: 28–524).
: The need for written informed consent was waived by the Institutional Review Board of the Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine. Instead, the Institutional Review Board requested us to inform the patients that they could refuse the use of their tissue specimens for this present study, if they did not want to participate.