Nagata, Kosei
Oshima, Yasushi
Nakamoto, Hideki
Sakamoto, Ryuji
Ohtomo, Nozomu
Izuka, Masaaki
Nakajima, Koji
Yoshimoto, Takahiko
Fujii, Tomoko
Matsudaira, Ko
Tanaka, Sakae
Oka, Hiroyuki
Article History
Received: 17 March 2019
Revised: 30 October 2019
Accepted: 8 December 2019
First Online: 16 December 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: No benefits in any form have been or will be received from a commercial party related directly or indirectly to the subject of this manuscript. The manuscript submitted does not contain information about medical device (s)/drug (s).
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee (Institutional Review Board of the Clinical Research Support Center of the University of Tokyo Hospital, Yokohama Rosai Hospital, Japanese Red Cross Medical Center, Japan Community Health-care Organization Tokyo Shinjuku Medical Center, and Kanto Rosai Hospital) 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.