Fukushi, Ken
Okamoto, Teppei https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3750-3811
Ozaki, Yusuke
Ozaki, Kai
Sasaki, Daichi
Miura, Yuuki
Okuyama, Yoshiharu
Tanaka, Yoshimi
Imanishi, Kengo
Hatakeyama, Shingo
Saitoh, Fumitada
Ohyama, Chikara
Article History
Received: 30 August 2021
Accepted: 21 September 2021
First Online: 28 September 2021
Declarations
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: All authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.
: This study was approved by the ethics committee of Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine (IRB number, Ken11H30001). The trial is registered in the UMIN Clinical Trials Registry UMIN000031200. All patients provided verbal informed consent to use data for this secondary post hoc analysis, which was recorded in their medical charts. The ethics committee of Hirosaki University School of Medicine permitted this procedure. All procedures that were performed in studies involving human participants were according to the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.