Yagi, Daisuke http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8535-645X
Hosogi, Hisahiro
Akagawa, Shin
Kawada, Hironori
Shimoike, Norihiro
Kanaya, Seiichiro
Article History
Received: 8 November 2018
Accepted: 23 March 2019
First Online: 3 April 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1964 and later versions.
: Drs. Yagi, Kanaya, Hosogi, Akagawa, Kawada, and Shimoike have no conflicts of interest or financial ties to disclose. This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
: Informed consent or a substitute for it was obtained from all patients for being included in the study. It was also approved by the hospital ethics committee. Reception number is J-0009.