Kawasaki, Sachiko
Shigematsu, Hideki
Ikejiri, Masaki
Mui, Takahiro
Okuda, Akinori
Masuda, Keisuke
Ueda, Yurito
Tanaka, Yasuhito
Article History
Received: 11 April 2025
Revised: 1 July 2025
Accepted: 22 July 2025
First Online: 4 August 2025
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study was approved by the Ethic Committee of Nara Medical University (No. 1909) and registered in a public trial registry (UMIN000032338 www.umin.ac.jp) before enrolling the first patient. All study was performed in accordance with the ethical standards as laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was waived as this study was consisted of the same data that have been obtained previously.