Inoue, Takuro
Goto, Yukihiro
Shima, Ayako
Hirai, Hisao
Shitara, Satoshi
Suzuki, Fumio
Matsuda, Masayuki
Article History
Received: 28 April 2022
Accepted: 18 June 2022
First Online: 22 July 2022
Declarations
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: All procedures performed in this study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional committee and national research committee. This study is in accordance with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Written informed consent was obtained from all individual participants in this study. All data identifying the patients were anonymized. This study protocol was reviewed and approved by the ethics committee of Koto Memorial Hospital (Shiga, Japan), approval number 2012–12.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: The authors declare no competing interests.