Yatabe, Y. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0143-2780
Tanioka, T. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8142-4750
Waseda, Y.
Yamaguchi, K.
Ogo, T.
Fujiwara, H.
Okuno, K.
Kawada, K.
Haruki, S.
Tokunaga, M.
Fujii, Y.
Kinugasa, Y.
Article History
Received: 1 February 2024
Accepted: 3 April 2024
First Online: 22 April 2024
Declarations
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: Yusuke Yatabe, Toshiro Tanioka, Yuma Waseda, Kazuya Yamaguchi, Taichi Ogo, Hisashi Fujiwara, Keisuke Okuno, Kenro Kawada, Shigeo Haruki, and Yasuhisa Fujii declare that they have no conflict of interest. Masanori Tokunaga has received speaker honoraria from Intuitive Surgical, Johnson & Johnson, Olympus, and Medtronic. Yusuke Kinugasa has received speaker honoraria from Intuitive Surgical, Johnson & Johnson, and Medtronic.
: This study was approved by the Ethics Review Committee of Tokyo Medical and Dental University and performed in accordance with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all patients.
: All procedures performed in this study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments.