Takemoto, Ikutaka
Kawagoe, Naoyuki
Kijima, Sho
Sasaki, Yosuke
Watanabe, Toshiyasu
Urita, Yoshihisa http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1740-0572
Article History
Received: 21 October 2018
Accepted: 12 December 2018
First Online: 28 December 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: This study protocol was approved by the Toho University Omori Medical Center Institutional Review Board (IRB) (Permit Number: 17-64) and the Social Insurance Kamata General Hospital IRB. The study was conducted according to the principles expressed in the Declaration of Helsinki. The participants were properly instructed and indicated that they consented to participate by signing the appropriate informed consent paperwork and/or by giving oral consent as approved by the IRB.
: We have no conflict of interest disclosures based on the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) guidelines.
: All procedures performed in this study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.