Matsunaga, Tomoyuki
Satio, Hiroaki
Sakano, Yu
Makinoya, Masahiro
Shimizu, Shota
Shishido, Yuji
Miyatani, Kozo
Hanaki, Takehiko
Kihara, Kyoichi
Yamamoto, Manabu
Tokuyasu, Naruo
Takano, Shuichi
Sakamoto, Teruhisa
Hasegawa, Toshimichi
Fujiwara, Yoshiyuki
Article History
Received: 21 April 2023
Accepted: 13 June 2023
First Online: 1 August 2023
Declarations
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: The authors state that they do not have any competing interests.
: All procedures were carried out following the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national), as well as the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and subsequent revisions. The study protocol was approved by the Tottori University Hospital Ethics Committee (approval: 20A243). In this retrospective study, patients were not required to provide their informed consent because the analyses relied on anonymous clinical data obtained after each patient agreed to treatment in writing. We also used an opt-out method to obtain consent for this study on the website, which was approved by the institutional review board.
: Not applicable.