Okamoto, Koichi
Ninomiya, Itasu
Fujiwara, Yuta
Mochizuki, Ichitaro
Aoki, Tatsuya
Yamaguchi, Takahisa
Terai, Shiro
Nakanuma, Shinichi
Kinoshita, Jun
Makino, Isamu
Nakamura, Keishi
Miyashita, Tomoharu
Tajima, Hidehiro
Takamura, Hiroyuki
Fushida, Sachio
Ohta, Tetsuo
Article History
Received: 10 January 2019
Accepted: 30 April 2019
First Online: 6 May 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All the procedures 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. Informed consent or a substitute for it was obtained from all patients or their guardians, and this work was approved by the ethical committee of our hospital.
: Koichi Okamoto, Itasu Ninomiya, Yuta Fujiwara, Ichitaro Mochizuki, Tatsuya Aoki, Takahisa Yamaguchi, Shiro Terai, Shinichi Nakanuma, Jun Kinoshita, Isamu Makino, Keishi Nakamura, Tomoharu Miyashita, Hidehiro Tajima, Hiroyuki Takamura, Sachio Fushida, and Tetsuo Ohta declare that they have no conflict of interest.