Iwakiri, Kentaro http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5906-7715
Maeda, Shingo
Ohta, Yoichi
Minoda, Yukihide
Kobayashi, Akio
Nakamura, Hiroaki
Article History
Received: 26 February 2024
Accepted: 2 September 2024
First Online: 20 September 2024
Declarations
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: All authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. This trial was registered as a trial with the University Hospital Medical Information Network (UMIN) registration number UMIN000040542.
: The study protocol was approved by the institutional review board, and all patients provided written informed consent to participate.