Hori, Tomoki
Yamamoto, Kazuhiro https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7513-6725
Ito, Takefumi
Ikushima, Shigeki
Omura, Tomohiro
Yano, Ikuko
Article History
Received: 5 March 2025
Accepted: 10 August 2025
First Online: 2 September 2025
Declarations
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: Tomoki Hori, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Takefumi Ito, Shigeki Ikushima, Tomohiro Omura, and Ikuko Yano declare no conflict of interest.
: This retrospective study involving human participants was conducted in compliance with the ethical standards of the institutional and national research committees and the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its subsequent amendments or comparable ethical guidelines. The Ethics Committee of Nara Prefecture General Medical Center approved this study (Approval No. 706). Informed consent was obtained by allowing patients to opt-out of the study at any time by reviewing a summary of the study summary published on the institution’s website.
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: Consent for publication was obtained from patients using an opt-out approach.