Kamiya, Satoshi
Takeuchi, Hiroya
Nakahara, Tadaki
Niihara, Masahiro
Nakamura, Rieko
Takahashi, Tsunehiro
Wada, Norihito
Kawakubo, Hirofumi
Saikawa, Yoshiro
Omori, Tai
Murakami, Koji
Kitagawa, Yuko
Funding for this research was provided by:
Daiichi Sankyo Company (JP)
Covidien (IE)
TAIHO PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD
Olympus Medical Systems Coep.
Nihon Medi-Physics Co.,Ltd
Article History
Received: 11 September 2015
Accepted: 6 November 2015
First Online: 30 November 2015
Compliance with ethical standards
:
: Yuko Kitagawa has received grants from Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd., Covidien; Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Olympus Corporation; and Nihon Medi-Physics Co., Ltd.
: All procedures were conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1964 and later versions. Informed consent or a substitute for it was obtained from all patients included in the study.