Murata, Makoto
Ariji, Yoshiko http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7079-0867
Ohashi, Yasufumi
Kawai, Taisuke
Fukuda, Motoki
Funakoshi, Takuma
Kise, Yoshitaka
Nozawa, Michihito
Katsumata, Akitoshi
Fujita, Hiroshi
Ariji, Eiichiro
Article History
Received: 11 September 2018
Accepted: 20 November 2018
First Online: 11 December 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Makoto Murata, Yoshiko Ariji, Yasufumi Ohashi, Taisuke Kawai, Motoki Fukuda, Takuma Funakoshi, Yoshitaka Kise, Michihito Nozawa, Akitoshi Katsumata, Hiroshi Fujita, and Eiichiro Ariji declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: 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.
: This article does not contain any studies with animal subjects performed by any of the authors.
: Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study.