Kitamura, Mineaki
Yamashita, Hiroshi
Sawase, Atsushi
Takeno, Masayoshi
Maemura, Koji
Mukae, Hiroshi
Nishino, Tomoya
Article History
Received: 22 May 2024
Accepted: 28 July 2024
First Online: 22 August 2024
Declarations
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: The authors have declared that no conflict of interest exists.
: The study was approved by the Nagasaki Harbor Medical Center Institutional Review Board (IRB) under approval number R05-30 and conformed to the ethical standards outlined in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its subsequent revisions.
: The need for informed consent was waived due to the retrospective nature of the study and anonymized data collection.