Ohta, Masayuki
Seto, Yasuyuki
Endo, Yuichi
Naitoh, Takeshi
Hatao, Fumihiko
Shiraishi, Toshie
Yamamoto, Hiroshi
Kasama, Kazunori
Sasaki, Akira
Article History
Received: 8 September 2025
Accepted: 21 October 2025
First Online: 24 November 2025
Declarations
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: The authors declare no conflict of interest associated with this study.
: All data collection and analyses were performed in accordance with the ethical standards of the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki, and the study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Oita University Faculty of Medicine (approval no. 2208).
: Informed consent for this study was obtained using an opt-out method approved by the ethics committee, because the study used only anonymous data.