Hirano, Katsuhisa
Igarashi, Takamichi
Murotani, Kenta
Tanaka, Nobutake
Sakurai, Taro
Miwa, Takeshi
Watanabe, Toru
Shibuya, Kazuto
Yoshioka, Isaku
Fujii, Tsutomu http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0625-1911
Article History
Received: 11 October 2022
Accepted: 31 December 2022
First Online: 6 February 2023
Declarations
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: The authors declare no conflicts of interest related to this article. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to review this policy with all authors.
: The study was reviewed and approved (Ref. No. R2020200) by the institutional review board and complied with the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) guidelines [CitationRef removed]. All procedures in this study were performed in accordance with the guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki. Written informed consent for treatment was obtained from each patient prior to the start of treatment, and consent for the use of data for research was obtained on an opt-out basis.