Aoe, Mari http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7312-5352
Kanemitsu, Takafumi
Ohki, Takamasa
Kishi, Satoru
Ogura, Yoshiyasu
Takenaka, Yuto
Hashiba, Toyohiro
Ambe, Hiroko
Furukawa, Emi
Kurata, Yu
Ichikawa, Masahiro
Ohara, Ken
Honda, Tomoko
Furuse, Satoshi
Saito, Katsunori
Toda, Nobuo
Mise, Naobumi
Article History
Received: 3 October 2018
Accepted: 20 May 2019
First Online: 10 June 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors have declared that no conflict of interest exists.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee at which the studies were conducted (the ethics committee of Mitsui Memorial Hospital Approval No. C30 [Year 2018]) and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: This study is a retrospective observational study using existing data from medical records. IRB waived the requirement for informed consent from the patients according to the ethical guidelines for medical and health research involving human subjects in Japan.