Endo, Shunji http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0720-4156
Yamatsuji, Tomoki
Fujiwara, Yoshinori
Higashida, Masaharu
Kubota, Hisako
Tanaka, Hironori
Ito, Yoshitomo
Okada, Toshimasa
Yoshiatsu, Kazuhiko
Ueno, Tomio
Funding for this research was provided by:
Kawasaki Medical School
Article History
Received: 11 June 2022
Accepted: 5 September 2022
First Online: 23 November 2022
Declarations
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: The authors declare no conflicts of interest for this article.
: The protocol for this research project was approved by a suitably constituted Ethics Committee of the institution, and it conforms to the provisions of the Declaration of Helsinki. Committee of Kawasaki Medical School, Approval No. 5083–01. Written informed consent for surgery was obtained from the patients as required by the participating institutions. We used an opt-out recruitment strategy, because the study exclusively analyzed retrospective clinical data without investigation by investigators.