Booka, Eisuke
Takeuchi, Hiroya
Kikuchi, Hirotoshi
Miura, Akinori
Kanda, Mitsuro
Kawaguchi, Yoshihiko
Hamai, Yoichi
Nasu, Motomi
Sato, Shinsuke
Inoue, Masazumi
Okubo, Keisuke
Ogawa, Ryo
Sato, Hiroshi
Yoshino, Shigefumi
Takebayashi, Katsushi
Kono, Koji
Toh, Yasushi
Katori, Yukio
Article History
Received: 18 April 2024
Accepted: 13 August 2024
First Online: 6 September 2024
Declarations
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: This retrospective study was performed under the approval of each institution’s committee on human experimentation and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1964 and later versions. Patients were allowed to opt out of this study through public announcements published by each institution. All institutions applied for and obtained study approval from their respective institutional review boards.
: The authors declare no conflicts of interest associated with this study and have no grant support for this work.