Maruta, Hiroshi
Tominaga, Tetsuro
Nonaka, Takashi
Hisanaga, Makoto
Takeshita, Hiroaki
Fukuoka, Hidetoshi
To, Kazuo
Tanaka, Kenji
Sawai, Terumitsu
Nagayasu, Takeshi
Article History
Received: 30 January 2023
Accepted: 24 March 2023
First Online: 18 April 2023
Declarations
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: The authors declare no conflicts of interest in association with the present study.
: This study was performed in line with the principles of the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments. Approval was granted by the Clinical Research Review Boards of all participating hospitals.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.