Sekino, Nobufumi
Kurata, Yoshihiro
Hayano, Koichi
Matsumoto, Yasunori
Otsuka, Ryota
Hirano, Sho
Uesato, Masaya
Toyozumi, Takeshi
Nakano, Akira
Shiraishi, Tadashi
Matsusaka, Keisuke
Ikeda, Jun-ichiro
Hayashi, Hideki
Matsubara, Hisahiro
Article History
Received: 19 August 2025
Accepted: 24 February 2026
First Online: 7 April 2026
Declarations
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: The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
: All procedures were in accordance with the Ethics Committee of Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University (approval no. 1349; Chiba, Japan) and the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later versions. Written informed consent was obtained from all patients before study inclusion.