Nakamoto, Shogo http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8043-8608
Shien, Tadahiko
Itoh, Mitsuya
Yamamoto, Yutaka
Ohsumi, Shozo
Yoshitomi, Seiji
Hikino, Hajime
Miyoshi, Kazuya
Notsu, Akifumi
Taira, Naruto
Doihara, Hiroyoshi
Ikeda, Masahiko
Article History
Received: 21 September 2023
Accepted: 19 October 2023
First Online: 30 October 2023
Declarations
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: The authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with 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. The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Okayama University Hospital (No. 2112–037). This study was conducted in full compliance with the relevant laws and after obtaining approval from the institutional review boards of the centers where the patients had been treated and the data collected. Informed consent was obtained in the form of an opt-out on the website from all individual subjects included in the study.
: All authors consent to the publication of this manuscript. The patient informed consent form also included a section on consenting to the publication of the patients’ anonymized data.