Goto, Yukihiro
Inoue, Takuro
Article History
Received: 3 June 2025
Revised: 18 September 2025
Accepted: 20 September 2025
First Online: 13 October 2025
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: All procedures performed in this study were by the ethical standards of our institutional committee, national research committee, and the 1964 Helsinki Declaration with its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. This study also obtained approval from our institution’s ethics committee. All data identifying the patients were anonymized. This article was conducted and described using the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) guidelines. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: This manuscript has not previously been accepted nor is it being considered for publication elsewhere.
: The authors declare no competing interests.