Nishi, Kentaro https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3436-0392
Ide, Kentaro
Kitakado, Hideaki
Ogura, Masao
Matsumoto, Shotaro
Kamei, Koichi
Article History
Received: 2 August 2025
Revised: 11 October 2025
Accepted: 23 October 2025
First Online: 14 November 2025
Declarations
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: This retrospective study was performed in line with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki and the Ethical Guidelines for Medical and Health Research Involving Human Subjects issued by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan. The protocol for the study received approval from the Ethics Committee of the NCCHD (Approval No.: 2025–070). Informed consent for publication was obtained from the legal guardians of the patients.
: The authors have no conflicts of interest relevant to this article to disclose. No honorarium, grant, or other form of payment was provided to any of the authors to produce the manuscript.