Nishio, Yoshitomo
Hoshino, Tetsuro http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7134-4714
Murotani, Kenta
Furuhashi, Akifumi
Baku, Masayo
Sasanabe, Ryujiro
Kazaoka, Yoshiaki
Shiomi, Toshiaki
Article History
Received: 8 September 2019
Revised: 4 October 2019
Accepted: 22 October 2019
First Online: 25 November 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional review board (IRB) of Aichi Medical University Hospital (approval number 19-H006) and adhered to the tenets of the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki.
: The IRB granted a waiver of informed consent due to the non-invasive and retrospective nature of the study. Nevertheless, we published an outline of the study plan which is available for public viewing on the Aichi Medical University Web site in order to provide patients with the opportunity to decline participation; however, none of the patients declined to participate in the study.