Ueda, Nobuhiro http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0929-4047
Aoki, Kumiko
Shimotsuji, Hiroko
Nakashima, Chie
Kawakami, Mao
Imai, Yuichiro
Kirita, Tadaaki
Article History
Received: 14 January 2020
Accepted: 13 December 2020
First Online: 8 January 2021
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All authors have no conflicts of interest.
: This study was approved by the institutional review board of the Nara Medical University Hospital (Receipt No. 2184).
: This study did not require patient consent because of its retrospective nature; therefore, we published the research plan on the homepage of our hospital’s website and guaranteed an opt-out opportunity according to the instructions of the IRB.