Suda, Koichi http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0423-1565
Sakai, Miyoshi
Obama, Kazutaka
Yoda, Yukie
Shibasaki, Susumu
Tanaka, Tsuyoshi
Nakauchi, Masaya
Hisamori, Shigeo
Nishigori, Tatsuto
Igarashi, Ataru
Noshiro, Hirokazu
Terashima, Masanori
Uyama, Ichiro
Article History
Received: 5 May 2022
Accepted: 27 November 2022
First Online: 9 December 2022
Declarations
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: Koichi Suda was funded by Sysmex, Co. in relation to the Collaborative Laboratory for Research and Development in Advanced Surgical Intelligence, Fujita Health University. Koichi Suda also received advisory fees from Medicaroid, Inc., outside of the present study. Tsuyoshi Tanaka and Ichiro Uyama were funded by Medicaroid, Inc. in relation to the Collaborative Laboratory for Research and Development in Advanced Surgical Technology, Fujita Health University. Ichiro Uyama received lecture fees from Intuitive Surgical, Inc., outside of the present study. Kazutaka Obama received lecture fees from Intuitive Surgical, Inc., Medtronic, Ethicon, Medicaroid, Inc., and Olympus, outside of the present study. Ataru Igarashi received research expenses from Intuitive Surgical, Inc., outside of the present study. Masanori Terashima received personal fees from Taiho Pharmaceutical, Chugai Pharmaceutical, Ono Pharmaceutical, BMS, Yakult Honsha, Takeda Pharmaceutical, Eli Lilly Japan, Pfizer Japan, Daiichi-Sankyo, Johnson and Johnson, Medtronic Japan, Intuitive Surgical Japan, and Olympus, outside the submitted work. Miyoshi Sakai, Yukie Yoda, Susumu Shibasaki, Masaya Nakauchi, Shigeo Hisamori, Tatsuto Nishigori, and Hirokazu Noshiro have no conflicts of interest or financial ties to disclose. Koichi Suda, Kazutaka Obama, Tsuyoshi Tanaka, Ataru Igarashi, Masanori Terashima, and Ichiro Uyama have no conflicts of interest or financial ties to disclose in relation to the present study.
: The protocol for this research project has been approved by a suitably constituted Ethics Committee (Institutional Review Board of Fujita Health University, Approval No. HM18-281), and it conforms to the provisions of the Declaration of Helsinki. The opt-out method was used to obtain informed consent from all participating patients. This study was registered in the University Hospital Medical Information Network (UMIN000034366) before the start of the study.