Imai, Norio http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2289-7499
Nozaki, Asami
Shobugawa, Yugo
Higuchi, Kentaro
Suda, Yoshihiro
Oinuma, Takeo
Suzuki, Hayato
Horigome, Yoji
Kawashima, Hiroyuki
Article History
Received: 15 November 2023
Accepted: 17 June 2024
First Online: 8 July 2024
Declarations
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: All authors have no conflict of interest.
: All procedures involving human participants performed in this study were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The ethics review board of Niigata University (No. 2018-0341) approved the conduct of this study. Given the retrospective nature of this study, the need for informed consent was waived.
: The need for informed consent was waived because the study was retrospective and non-interventional and no personal information will be obtained by using the existing sample.