Nishino, Tomohiko http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4287-979X
Tomori, Shinya
Ono, Sayaka
Takahashi, Kazuhiro
Mimaki, Masakazu
Article History
Received: 1 February 2024
Accepted: 30 March 2024
First Online: 13 April 2024
Declarations
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: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
: The study was approved by the Teikyo University Ethical Review Board for Medical and Health Research Involving Human Subjects (approval number 20-195-11). All procedures involving human participants were performed in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: The study was presented on our university website, which allowed patients and their guardians to ask questions regarding the study and opt out of sharing data. Informed consent for the publication of and participation in the study was obtained before each patient underwent ultrasound elastography. The study was explained to all patients and their parents/guardians in plain language with explanatory documents, and written consent for participation in the research and its publication was obtained from the parents/guardians of all participants. Further, the right of parents/guardians to refuse to participate and withdraw consent at will was clarified.