Saito, Takahiro
Tanaka, Kimitaka http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9899-4581
Ebihara, Yuma
Kurashima, Yo
Murakami, Soichi
Shichinohe, Toshiaki
Hirano, Satoshi
Article History
Received: 30 May 2018
Accepted: 29 August 2018
First Online: 3 September 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: This study was approved by the Hokkaido University Ethics Committee (No. 017-0016). Comprehensive informed consent to use patient information for this study was obtained from all individual participants before surgery.
: Drs. Takahiro Saito, Kimitaka Tanaka, Yuma Ebihara, Yo Kurashima, Soichi Murakami, Toshiaki Shichinohe, and Satoshi Hirano have no conflicts of interest or financial ties to disclose.