Shima, Hisato https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3918-4735
Doi, Toshio
Yoshikawa, Yukari
Okamoto, Takuya
Tashiro, Manabu
Inoue, Tomoko
Okada, Kazuyoshi
Minakuchi, Jun
Article History
Received: 8 December 2023
Accepted: 5 July 2024
First Online: 5 August 2024
Declarations
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: The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
: All procedures involving human participants performed in this study were following the ethical standards of the institutional committee and the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments and comparable ethical standards. This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Kawashima Hospital (approval no. 1081).
: Because of the retrospective study design and the anonymity of the patients studied, written informed consent was waived by the opt-out information. Three healthy volunteers provided written informed consent.