Ono, Azusa
Ishimori, Shingo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3863-2743
Wada, Yuki
Yamamoto, Kazuhiro
Shinomoto, Tadashi
Onishi, Satoshi
Shimokawa, Toshio
Okizuka, Yo
Harada, Atsuko
Article History
Received: 23 May 2024
Revised: 11 July 2024
Accepted: 23 August 2024
First Online: 2 September 2024
Declarations
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: All procedures performed in this study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards set by the Ethics Board at Takatsuki General Hospital in which the study was conducted (approval number 2018-84) and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: No informed consent was obtained from the patients or their parents according to institutional ethics. The study protocol was displayed publicly in a poster at both institutions in compliance with the guidelines and the institutional ethics review board for the patients’ benefit, so that each patient could have an opportunity to refuse participation in this study.
: The authors declare no competing interests.