Kim, Mai
Gu, Wenchao https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1505-9887
Iwakawa, Reika Kawabata-
Kina, Shinichiro
Nakajima, Takahito
Higuchi, Tetsuya
Ogawa, Masaru
Suzuki, Keisuke
Tsushima, Yoshito
Yokoo, Satoshi
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (18K1702, 21K09838, 22K20814, 24K18786)
Article History
Received: 8 October 2024
Revised: 25 March 2025
Accepted: 17 April 2025
First Online: 14 May 2025
Declarations
:
: All procedures performed in this retrospective study were approved by the Institutional Review Board (approval number HS2020 - 007) of Gunma University in accordance with the ethical standards of the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and subsequent amendments or equivalent. As this is a retrospective study, the need for informed consent complied with the Institutional Review Board's criteria for opt-out.
: This study does not include any identifiable individual data.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.