Okamoto, Michio http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0332-9912
Namba, Jiro
Kuriyama, Kohji
Miyamura, Satoshi
Yokoi, Hiroyuki
Yamamoto, Koji
Article History
Received: 29 April 2019
Accepted: 10 September 2019
First Online: 20 September 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and publication of this article.
: This paper includes clinical and X-ray and CT image data of patients. All procedures performed in this retrospective study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of Yao Municipal Hospital research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Although this study does not provide informed consent to all patients directly, it is a retrospective study, and it is a study dealing with anonymous data, so it was approved by the ethics committee of Yao Municipal Hospital (ethics examination application form number: 042219-59).