Kondo, Haruhiro
Takae, Seido https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0783-0758
Furuta, Shigeyuki
Sakamoto, Miki
Obayashi, Juma
Keino, Dai
Nakamura, Kentaro
Tanaka, Kunihide
Kawaguchi, Takuya
Mori, Mika
Furuya, Natsumi
Nishioka, Mikiko
Suzuki-Takahashi, Yuki
Nagae, Chiai
Sugishita, Yodo
Horage-Okutsu, Yuki
Mori, Tetsuya
Shimizu, Naoki
Kitagawa, Hiroaki
Suzuki, Nao https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7440-8127
Article History
Received: 16 January 2025
Accepted: 24 March 2025
First Online: 22 April 2025
Declarations
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: The authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose.
: All legal guardians and patients (16 years old) gave written, informed consent in keeping with the Declaration of Helsinki, and the study was approved by the institutional review board of the university (approval no. 3424; UMIN: 000040576).
: All study participants (and/or their guardians) gave written informed consent to the study. Except for infants and very young children (under around 3–4 years old), patients under 16 years old were provided with information through illustrations and/or animations to obtain informed assent.