Inoue, Kuniaki
Hori, Shunta
Tomizawa, Mitsuru
Yoneda, Tatsuo
Nakai, Yasushi
Miyake, Makito
Tanaka, Nobumichi
Fujimoto, Kiyohide https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1507-2464
Article History
Received: 8 July 2025
Accepted: 2 September 2025
First Online: 15 September 2025
Declarations
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: The authors have declared that no conflict of interest exists.
: All procedures performed in this study were in accordance with the ethical standards of the Institutional Review Board for Clinical Studies of Nara Medical University (IRB approval number 2014) and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments. This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors.
: The requirement for informed patient consent was waived owing to the retrospective nature of the analysis.