Nobayashi, Hiroki
Kanzaki, Go https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7795-369X
Mae, Haruki
Haruhara, Kotaro
Tsuboi, Nobuo
Yokoo, Takashi
Article History
Received: 23 May 2025
Accepted: 30 July 2025
First Online: 4 August 2025
Declarations
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: All authors have declared no competing interest.
: All procedures involving human participants were performed in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The requirement for informed consent was waived because of the retrospective nature of the study. Instead, all participants were provided with the opportunity to opt out of the study. The institutional ethics review board of the hospital approved the study protocol.